4M Mega Hydraulic Arm Robotic Science Kit

My 4-almost-5-year-old has been asking me questions about how excavators and other pieces of heavy machinery move, so I ordered this thinking it offered the ultimate demonstration. It did. Yes, that’s below the recommended age. I had to do the bulk of the assembly, but the moment I connected two syringes and let him operate one of the plungers, a light bulb came on. And then when the claw portion got connected, forget about it. I couldn’t have imagined the educational moments any better.He is also finding it more fun than I expected just using it as a toy. He got the control coordination down pretty quickly, if not the finesse (more on that below), and it has been the favorite toy for the past few days.I can forgive them the unstable base (screw it down to a board if you need to, you can’t expect more without the thing being much larger) and the fact that things start to pop when you’re zealous with the controls. Those things are redeemed by the affordable price, the clever design, and the exceptional educational value.

It can not lift heavy stuff

Didn’t work