Maybe some of you with kids and science fair projects have some experience here. My nephew (12 yrs. old) is interested in electronics and wants to get into microcontrollers. Anybody know what is a good starter kit? I have been surfing around and looking at stuff like PICAXE, Parallax, Arduino, etc. I have done embedded design on the job before and have enough experience with the devices and development environments from Microchip and Atmel to know that they are probably not the best entry point for a kid.
Thanks!