It's fun! The building instruction written in the booklet is very concise. Also it contains step-by-step testing process, which helps noticing mistakes early.
Warning:
CHOKING HAZARD -- Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
About
With Real Electronic Parts...
And Step by Step Instructions...
...You Can Build Your Own Invention!
Each MicroKit includes a step by step instructional booklet. Build in stages and check your work as you go. Place parts in the breadboard to make connections without tools. Everything you need to succeed is included in the box, including 3 AA batteries. By taking things a step at a time, you can build it!
When you build a MicroKit, you're using the same electronic parts engineers use to make circuit boards. Learn the basic theory behind each part while gaining confidence and skills in circuit assembly. But the learning doesn't stop when you complete your kit. With the finished theremin, you can experiment with the electric fields it uses to sense the environment. Discover how this mysterious force of physics works!
In 1920, an engineer named Leon Theremin discovered he could create music and sound by waving his hands around electric fields. Since then, the theremin has inspired musicians and engineers to create new sounds and instruments. MicroKits continues that tradition by designing a version of the theremin that anyone can build, including you! What sounds will you discover?
Specs
Pitch Range
C4 to C6 (Two Octaves)
Antenna Range
3 to 0.5 Inches
Calibration
Automatic
Theremin Type
Pitch and Volume
Sensing Tech
Capacitive (True Theremin)
Power Supply
3xAA Batteries (Included)
Questions
What's a Theremin?
In 1920, an engineer named Leon Theremin discovered he could create music and sound by waving his hands around electric fields created by antennas. Since then, the theremin has inspired musicians and engineers to create new sounds and instruments.
MicroKits continues that tradition by designing a version of the theremin that anyone can build, including you! What sounds will you discover?
See the MicroKits theremin in action in our video.
What You'll Learn
When you build a MicroKit, you're using the same electronic parts engineers use to make circuit boards. You will learn the basic theory behind each part while gaining confidence and skills in circuit assembly.
But the learning doesn't stop when you complete your kit. With the finished theremin, you can experiment with the electric fields it uses to sense the environment. Discover how this mysterious force of physics works!
Building Process
Unlike other electronic kits, MicroKits are build without soldering or any other tools. Just place parts in the breadboard to make electrical connections.
The building process is broken up into stages, so you can check your work as you go.
What's Included
Everything you need to succeed is included in the box, including 30 electronic parts, the 22 page step by step booklet, and 3 AA batteries. No tools are needed, so you can start building right away.
Reviews
Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.9 / 5 from 126 reviews.
Lots of fun putting together and experimenting with sound
We build MicroKits theremins on a circuit board inside an Altoids tin. It's our most fun by far DIY Workshop.
Our first kit had a problem so Dave sent us a second kit and everything worked perfectly! I love the simple electronics lesson that comes with the instructions. And of course actually playing a theremin we made is fun and satisfying.
We assembled this as a little date activity hoping to get a better understanding of the electronics behind musical gear and instruments. We’re both musicians aged 29 and 33 and no kids but we chose this kit because of the simple explanations behind everything. Other educational materials geared to people our age tend to assume we know more than we do and at some point it feels like we’re too old to ask about those things. We both feel like we were able to apply what we learned about the inner workings of a theremin to other musical gear we work with daily, like our amps and pedals. Sometimes you just gotta have things explained to you like you’re a child aged 6+ if that’s what it takes to understand. And we now have a sweet new theremin to commemorate a successful lesson! Bonus points for nobody getting zapped or burned in the process. It wasn’t a risk we were really concerned about but sometimes that’s just how hands-on learning goes.
My sons built it together and had a blast
I run DIY workshops for music electronics. There was a popular outcry to do a DIY Theremin workshop. So we put the MicroKit Theremin on a circuit board, mount it in an Altoids tin, and folks make their very own tiny mobile theremin.
My 8 year old son and I enjoyed putting this kit together that I bought as a Christmas gift! Educational AND fun to play with. The instructions were very clear and I appreciated the explanation of why each part worked as expected.
Wonderful little theremin project. I got this for my partner, a producer, and he loves it. It brought out the kid in him. Pieces are quite tiny so we used some tweezers and some good lighting. Makes sense, it is a micro kit after all. We can't wait to buy another invention to do together :)
Building this was a delightful treat and the steps had pictures to help understand the process. The history behind it was amazing too. It was so fun. Edith , aged 9
Super fun
My son has a love for building things and learning about how they work. This theremin kit was thoroughly enjoyed by my son and we can't wait to try other build kits when we get the time to. Thank you.
I used a set of the Theremin MicroKits in summer camps with makers as young as 11 years old! The instructions were so well written with colorful illustrations to follow along for the non-readers. Kids learned all the names of parts too. We all had so much fun making these and then playing music. Thanks for making such a great kit to learn about electronics.
What fun! I’ve been obsessed with theremins for years and have been wanting to build one of my own. When I saw this kit, it sounded like the perfect Summer Break activity for my kids. In just 30 minutes, I built the kit with the help of my five year old, and we’ve had so much fun playing with it since! Highly recommended for anyone interested in learning about circuitry, electronic music, or just plain STEM fun. The instructions were great and very easy to follow. Looking forward to getting more cool gadgets from MicroKits.
Cool kit. Easy to assemble. Fun little thing.
Loved it! Built it by himself. Looking forward to getting another microkit!
Fun to do with my grandson.
Easy to follow instruction. Good intro to electronics for this rookie. The battery pack had a reversed part. Spring negative/positive contact installed in reverse. Quick fix. More knowledge of transistor, capacitor, resistor needed.
My 7 yr old grandson and myself just completed our Theremin ! It went well we only had to change 2 wires throughout the project. We attached a video, hope to see our 15% disc coupon.
This is the coolest electronics kit. My grandkids ages 5 and 7 had fun building it, but more fun playing it. It was very easy to put together. The instructions are very clear and fun. I highly recommend this kit.
Excellent! Instructions are easy to follow! Would recommend!
Had a blast building this with The Kid. Super easy, super cool. Space age radness! Highly recommend!
Great company, and the kit was a lot of fun to build and play with.
Great kit, fun/easy build. Components are high quality and the instructions are very clear and easy to follow.
This is the best product of this type that I have ever encountered. The instruction booklet is clear. The multi-stage process with testing at each stage provides an excellent learning process. We made a few mistakes manage to put the kit together in less than a half hour.
Absolutely LOVE my theremin! I bought it at the end of 2021, and it sat in its packaging until tonight, when I assembled it and fell in love. I came to this website to buy 5 more and see you’re sold out :( I hope you get more back in stock soon.
Fun and straightforward build — made it with my daughter, and she loves it as much as I do!
I Love this kit. Seriously brilliant. Design, components, instructions, and circuit and electrical knowledge provided. All together brilliant. Couldn’t be happier with this fun little kit. Would love to acquire a voice synthesizer to attach to this and bring it to another level or fun. But just as this puppy sits it’s simply wonderful.
I was looking into theramins. I'm not a musician, but I love playing instruments for fun. Theramins are expensive instruments though. I got this kit for Christmas. I love putting things together and had a lot of fun assembling my kit. The instructions are clear and the steps are done well. The tidbits of information about each part were excellent. I was surprised at how quickly the device could be assembled (all the little parts intimidated me at first). But the instructions were so clear that I soon had a working theramin. Keep up the good work. Hope you'll come up with more fun kits.
David, First my apology for late response, the kit was put away for an upcoming birthday. Delivery was lightening quick with no issues. The builder is 8 years old and completed the kit all on his own. Documentation complete and extremely well presented. Great pictorials! The fun is in the building and in the pride of accomplishment. Make more kits! Paul
Hola Dave. Quisiera felicitarte por haber realizado algo excepcional, el hacer sencillo algo que es muy complicado y técnico. Congratulations !!!!!. Me ha funcionado a la primera y eso que soy Doctor Ingeniero Industrial especialidad electrónico. Si desde España puedo colaborar contigo, estoy a tu servicio.
Was a lot of fun! I had a mistake while assembling my project, and emailed Dave who was very helpful and got me right on track. This was my first time ever trying something like this and I would love to do it again!
My son (7) and I absolutely loved the Theremin kit! The bread board makes it so easy, as do the preshaped pieces and eyeballs on the chips! We appreciated having the science explanations (what's a capacitor/transistor/resistor and how the whole device works) and the inclusion of the circuit diagram. Having checks along the way provides a low frustration way to build. Amazing execution of the kit with exciting interactive results. We can't wait for the next kit!!
Great for an intergenerational family activity
I have always wanted a theremin and this kit was a fun, quick build with easy to follow instructions. Once I master Mary Had a Little Lamb, I might even post a video.
This kit was a present for my granddaughter that I ordered after hearing your story about what the tariffs did to you and your company. Love the ingenuity and creativity you use in building your neat micro kits!
Fantastic kit! It was so well put-together, and the instruction booklet was so clear, it was easy to build. If my kids were still small, this would have been a great project to do with them. I also loved that they include the schematic in the book so you can see how it was designed. Also, the quality of the components was very good. Well done.
The kit was fun to assemble and it's a blast to play. I'll be giving these kits out for Christmas this year.
It made for a wonderful STEM project to build with the grandkids!
I wanted a project to share with my ten year old grandson. I figured the Theremin kit might be fun. With my grandson's better eye sight and more nimble fingers he could better do the work and I could do the supervision. Actually, I was barely needed. We had fun together and when the Theremin performed as expected first try, we high fived and called it a success.
Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.9 / 5 from 126 reviews.
It's fun! The building instruction written in the booklet is very concise. Also it contains step-by-step testing process, which helps noticing mistakes early.
Lots of fun putting together and experimenting with sound
We build MicroKits theremins on a circuit board inside an Altoids tin. It's our most fun by far DIY Workshop.
Our first kit had a problem so Dave sent us a second kit and everything worked perfectly! I love the simple electronics lesson that comes with the instructions. And of course actually playing a theremin we made is fun and satisfying.
We assembled this as a little date activity hoping to get a better understanding of the electronics behind musical gear and instruments. We’re both musicians aged 29 and 33 and no kids but we chose this kit because of the simple explanations behind everything. Other educational materials geared to people our age tend to assume we know more than we do and at some point it feels like we’re too old to ask about those things. We both feel like we were able to apply what we learned about the inner workings of a theremin to other musical gear we work with daily, like our amps and pedals. Sometimes you just gotta have things explained to you like you’re a child aged 6+ if that’s what it takes to understand. And we now have a sweet new theremin to commemorate a successful lesson! Bonus points for nobody getting zapped or burned in the process. It wasn’t a risk we were really concerned about but sometimes that’s just how hands-on learning goes.
My sons built it together and had a blast
I run DIY workshops for music electronics. There was a popular outcry to do a DIY Theremin workshop. So we put the MicroKit Theremin on a circuit board, mount it in an Altoids tin, and folks make their very own tiny mobile theremin.
My 8 year old son and I enjoyed putting this kit together that I bought as a Christmas gift! Educational AND fun to play with. The instructions were very clear and I appreciated the explanation of why each part worked as expected.
Wonderful little theremin project. I got this for my partner, a producer, and he loves it. It brought out the kid in him. Pieces are quite tiny so we used some tweezers and some good lighting. Makes sense, it is a micro kit after all. We can't wait to buy another invention to do together :)
Building this was a delightful treat and the steps had pictures to help understand the process. The history behind it was amazing too. It was so fun. Edith , aged 9
Super fun
My son has a love for building things and learning about how they work. This theremin kit was thoroughly enjoyed by my son and we can't wait to try other build kits when we get the time to. Thank you.
I used a set of the Theremin MicroKits in summer camps with makers as young as 11 years old! The instructions were so well written with colorful illustrations to follow along for the non-readers. Kids learned all the names of parts too. We all had so much fun making these and then playing music. Thanks for making such a great kit to learn about electronics.
What fun! I’ve been obsessed with theremins for years and have been wanting to build one of my own. When I saw this kit, it sounded like the perfect Summer Break activity for my kids. In just 30 minutes, I built the kit with the help of my five year old, and we’ve had so much fun playing with it since! Highly recommended for anyone interested in learning about circuitry, electronic music, or just plain STEM fun. The instructions were great and very easy to follow. Looking forward to getting more cool gadgets from MicroKits.
Cool kit. Easy to assemble. Fun little thing.
Loved it! Built it by himself. Looking forward to getting another microkit!
Fun to do with my grandson.
Easy to follow instruction. Good intro to electronics for this rookie. The battery pack had a reversed part. Spring negative/positive contact installed in reverse. Quick fix. More knowledge of transistor, capacitor, resistor needed.
My 7 yr old grandson and myself just completed our Theremin ! It went well we only had to change 2 wires throughout the project. We attached a video, hope to see our 15% disc coupon.
This is the coolest electronics kit. My grandkids ages 5 and 7 had fun building it, but more fun playing it. It was very easy to put together. The instructions are very clear and fun. I highly recommend this kit.
Excellent! Instructions are easy to follow! Would recommend!
Had a blast building this with The Kid. Super easy, super cool. Space age radness! Highly recommend!
Great company, and the kit was a lot of fun to build and play with.
Great kit, fun/easy build. Components are high quality and the instructions are very clear and easy to follow.
This is the best product of this type that I have ever encountered. The instruction booklet is clear. The multi-stage process with testing at each stage provides an excellent learning process. We made a few mistakes manage to put the kit together in less than a half hour.
Absolutely LOVE my theremin! I bought it at the end of 2021, and it sat in its packaging until tonight, when I assembled it and fell in love. I came to this website to buy 5 more and see you’re sold out :( I hope you get more back in stock soon.
Fun and straightforward build — made it with my daughter, and she loves it as much as I do!
I Love this kit. Seriously brilliant. Design, components, instructions, and circuit and electrical knowledge provided. All together brilliant. Couldn’t be happier with this fun little kit. Would love to acquire a voice synthesizer to attach to this and bring it to another level or fun. But just as this puppy sits it’s simply wonderful.
I was looking into theramins. I'm not a musician, but I love playing instruments for fun. Theramins are expensive instruments though. I got this kit for Christmas. I love putting things together and had a lot of fun assembling my kit. The instructions are clear and the steps are done well. The tidbits of information about each part were excellent. I was surprised at how quickly the device could be assembled (all the little parts intimidated me at first). But the instructions were so clear that I soon had a working theramin. Keep up the good work. Hope you'll come up with more fun kits.
David, First my apology for late response, the kit was put away for an upcoming birthday. Delivery was lightening quick with no issues. The builder is 8 years old and completed the kit all on his own. Documentation complete and extremely well presented. Great pictorials! The fun is in the building and in the pride of accomplishment. Make more kits! Paul
Hola Dave. Quisiera felicitarte por haber realizado algo excepcional, el hacer sencillo algo que es muy complicado y técnico. Congratulations !!!!!. Me ha funcionado a la primera y eso que soy Doctor Ingeniero Industrial especialidad electrónico. Si desde España puedo colaborar contigo, estoy a tu servicio.
Was a lot of fun! I had a mistake while assembling my project, and emailed Dave who was very helpful and got me right on track. This was my first time ever trying something like this and I would love to do it again!
My son (7) and I absolutely loved the Theremin kit! The bread board makes it so easy, as do the preshaped pieces and eyeballs on the chips! We appreciated having the science explanations (what's a capacitor/transistor/resistor and how the whole device works) and the inclusion of the circuit diagram. Having checks along the way provides a low frustration way to build. Amazing execution of the kit with exciting interactive results. We can't wait for the next kit!!
Great for an intergenerational family activity
I have always wanted a theremin and this kit was a fun, quick build with easy to follow instructions. Once I master Mary Had a Little Lamb, I might even post a video.
This kit was a present for my granddaughter that I ordered after hearing your story about what the tariffs did to you and your company. Love the ingenuity and creativity you use in building your neat micro kits!
Fantastic kit! It was so well put-together, and the instruction booklet was so clear, it was easy to build. If my kids were still small, this would have been a great project to do with them. I also loved that they include the schematic in the book so you can see how it was designed. Also, the quality of the components was very good. Well done.
The kit was fun to assemble and it's a blast to play. I'll be giving these kits out for Christmas this year.
It made for a wonderful STEM project to build with the grandkids!
I wanted a project to share with my ten year old grandson. I figured the Theremin kit might be fun. With my grandson's better eye sight and more nimble fingers he could better do the work and I could do the supervision. Actually, I was barely needed. We had fun together and when the Theremin performed as expected first try, we high fived and called it a success.