<p>The electronics kits are very different from the regular science kits. The ones my son had were very open ended. They had wires that you put between springs - so you really could experiment with what different combinations of resisters and capacitors would do to a circuit. He did try robots both with Lego Mindstorms (too dopey) and later in Science Olympiad (too much trouble). But he’s more of a theory than hardware guy in general.</p>