Looking for fun projects to do with my young nephews. Robots? Electronics? Building?

Howtoons is an amazing resource for projects. The marshmallow shooter is particularly fun! - Marc

https://www.makershe...e=9780060761585

Color me jealous! You still have electronic surplus locally? Ours closed in the last 5-10 years. I'd love to come shop!
Anyway, Legos have always been great, and NXT for more advance kids/users. look at projectsofpassage.blogspot.com for a robot project I have underway with my son. If you're talking surplus, you must be talking some real hacking vs. kit building, right?
Btw, instructibles.com is a good place to look for ideas/plans. Also Make magazine.

David

Ok, I'm typing this a second time. I see this is beta - it must be, because I clicked Preview Post and my post was wiped out. Couldn't use Back to find it, either.

Anyway . . . here are some answers, but they are not necessarily "projects":

Check out the very fun and addictive program call Phun: http://www.phunland.com/wiki/Home

Would they like to learn programming? Some options:

Alice: http://www.makeuseof...amming-to-kids/

Scratch: http://www.makeuseof...g-from-scratch/

SmallBasic: http://www.makeuseof...fts-smallbasic/

Check out Make magazine, of course. ;~)

Water Rockets: http://www.water-rockets.com/

Hope all this helps. Even just typing into this editbox, the web site is acting up. I'll be lucky if it posts this time.

I just found two projects that look interesting:

Little 8 from Let's Make Robots



and How to Build a Simple Robot – Beetle Robot from GoRobotics.net