Learn Mechanical Circuits with Spintronics game

By Todd Russell Apr 17, 2025

This looks creative, educational and fun and thought our grandchildren might enjoy:

Spintronics is a new game where players (ages 8 to adult) build mechanical circuits to solve puzzles.

Curly, gold Spintronics filigree

Feel the pull of voltage and see the flow of current. Electronics is abstract, but Spintronics makes circuits tangibleirresistibly touchable, and deeply intuitive.

Spintronics – Build Mechanical Circuits (upperstory.com)

Turns out just like the first few times we showed them pinball, they didn’t really care and went back to Minecraft, Fortnite and Rocket League. Educational “games” are tough business with kids.

There are smart people trying to blend these two worlds, as we’ve covered here before: Nolan Bushnell Speeds Up K-12 Learning with Startup ExoDexa Holdings

Guess the good news is they are getting more into pinball these days. Pinball is mechanical, so maybe that will be a way to drive their interest back into something like this?

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