Haynes HAC50127 Electronic Games Advent Calendar, Black

Bought this advent calendar for my boyfriend (28 years old) and he's just opened the first door. He's already spent a good half hour tinkering with the contents of the first door, and I've had a look through the extensive instruction manual that is included. Looks like it'll be more fun every day! Highly recommend this for anyone interested in electronics. Well worth the money and having seen the contents, I would even happily pay a higher price. Will definitely keep this brand in mind for future fun advent calendars!

As you get to day 5, you essentially only get to select a different game by swapping a resistor. But the preprogrammed processor is brilliant in supporting a number of useful toys. The electronics notes are well written and approachable.

This product is amazing,and such a good buy,and present.

My husband found the calendar disappointing and very repetitive

Opened day 1 and the parts enclosed do not match the instructions!

Son wasn't excited by it found it not very good instructions or step by step guides.

Where are the circuit diagrams? The box is junk, it can't be glued, there are no perforations to make it easy to fold. This is a really badly thought out piece of work.

I too received this, and like a few reviews here had problems on day 3 and 4 with it not working. I noted that the big chip item you get on day 3 was very hot. I took the battery out, let the chip cool and tried again and everything now worked fine. I’d started it a few days late and built the first 4 days one after the other hence why it was running hot. Whilst that sorted the problems I am concerned that such items could overheat like this. People need to be careful of leaving it with the batteries in.

Was purchased as a gift for someone who really enjoyed it. Would recommend.