[1] The kits come in a variety of sizes, and may include capacitors, diodes, electric motors, lamps, LEDs, radios, electromagnets, speakers, resistors, transformers, transistors and voltmeters.
The kits contain a plastic baseboard into which the various components and wires can be snapped to easily create a working circuit.
[3] Snap Circuits has been praised for exposing young children to elementary engineering concepts.
It later developed educational materials for schools to provide hands-on experience in electronics building.
A toy division was created in the late 1990s, and Snap Circuits, first released in 2002, soon grew in popularity.