Tech Will Save Us Electro Machines Kit | Educational Steam Toy, Ages 4 and up

It's a nice idea, but a bit confusing for children in that if you're trying to teach them about electricity and conductivity, typically playdoh type substances aren't conductive. Plus the powered 'thing' is such a strange shape it's hard to make it into many things, and the included cable to connect the controller to the 'thing' is far too short to be useful when the wheel is attached. I ended up using a spare audio aux cable instead.

Great idea but the standard electro dough kit is considerably better. Found it quite limited in application. Essentially you can make a vehicle with it and that's about it. I love tech will save us as a company and what they're doing for STEAM toys, but this one misses the mark

Really take my kid 5 mins to play with it , it is a to simple device . I bet they will play it again. Not good for money and value. The App itself are good concept but with a simple device, there is not much you really can do about it.

Bought for my 5 year old nieces for Christmas. They love it.

My grandson really enjoyed this game

The media could not be loaded.  I expected more from this set, but its functionality is really quite basic. It contains the pieces to build a circuit where electricity from a battery powered control panel goes through a cable and powers a little motor that turns a set of wheels. The two main things you can do with this toy is when you place a ball of playdoh on either of the two circular metal panels on the controller it powers the motor and makes the wheels spin. What is quite cool is that one of the panels makes it go backwards and the other forwards.The other feature of the toy is that you use the remaining doh to create something to sit on the motor so it's like whatever you make is moving. The picture on the box has an aeroplane, but you don't receive any white doh (my daughters first request was to make the aeroplane like the box and was disappointed when she couldn't). This only contains 3 very small tubs of doh so is very limited in what you can make unless you use other doh that you have.The motor and wheels are a bit clunky and don't travel well across surfaces. My daughter ended up using the cable to bring her creations for 'a walk like a dog' as it only really works if you pull it to stand because it's too heavy to move on it's own.The set contains no instructions except a basic pictogram dipecting how to set the whole thing up. It then relies on you downloading the free app for more ideas which in fairness does add another dimension to it and might spark a bit more interest.I like the concept of this STEM toy but it wouldn't be enough for me to buy it.

Strange mixture of dough and motors, and to be honest I preferred the LED version better. In principle it should offer something for kids to explore, but in practice it's making things out of the dough and sticking them on the wheels.The control panel has a pair of contacts that you have to link with dough to make it work, this seems a superfluous addition that justifies the conductive dough, but doesn't go much further - unlike, once again, the LED kit when you can see the effect of connecting things up in various ways has on the output.As usual there's an app; but there's also a useful website that gives some ideas for further exploration. It's mostly pretty simple but explore further and you'll find some trickier things to work on. Obviously this is aimed at young children, so there's lots of cartoons, perhaps to many in my opinion.It's very simple, perhaps too simple and like many simple science kits, possibly the child will exhaust the possibilities too quickly. At risk of repeating myself, the LED Tech Will Save Us kit is better. Perhaps the two could be combined?

I’ve never really liked science but thought this would be a fun way to explain some basic science facts to my 6 year old.The kit looks really comprehensive but once opened it’s a bit of a let down.The amount of dough you receive is tiny and the colours don’t match up to what’s on the outside of the box.It took less than 5 mins to complete the activity which was really too basic for her and we both lost interest quickly- I’ll pass this on to a friends younger child as I think it would be better suited to them. In fairness it does say from 4-99 years old but I’d say in theory it should be for 4-5 years olds