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Miniature Engine Kits

I am not a killjoy, but in seriousness if you are thinking about spending $450 or so on a high-quality mini engine kit, tools, fuel, batteries & all accessories, then perhaps a propane, gasoline or diesel backup generator would be a better use of your money.

Plus, you can use YouTube videos to figure out how to take your Honda EU2200i apart & put it back together again. Taking things apart & putting them back together again a great way to lean about them, but this probably best to do in a garage or workshop with good lighting, tools and a space where you can leave thing's setup without being disturbed.

If you are like most people, you cannot afford to spend all day playing with something to tear it down to its parts and then reassemble. This is why many kit cars, kit aircraft, kit homes, or even model kits are assembled over a period of days, weeks, months or years. 

A chain saw, weed whacker, lawn mower, blower or other air-cooled small displacement carburetor engine power tool would come with a higher quality useful engine to play with if you are so inclined. I am actually surprising the manufactures of such goods do not sell knock-down self-assembly versions of such tools, so people can assemble them for fun while also learning how they work.

Call see-through, clear, easy to take apart and put back together editions Educational Teaching How to Build & Service Small Engine Appliances & Tools. Turning real world devices, machines, equipment, appliances, tools, computers & similar systems into educational kits could be an excellent bridge between a child & their parent on the weekend, a Saturday afternoon tool to transfer skills & knowledge so the children learn how to use tools & have a can-do attitude enabled by knowledge that parents teach their children.

Information & skills learned early in life help people to become higher functioning maverick problem solvers later in life as adults. Fixers are people who have the boldness of thought, tenacity, skills, action-oriented problem-solving thinking to fix and repair or even upgrade everything. 

Consider software engineering and debugging code to find which variable string or memory pointer is causing the stack or memory overflow or undesirable function. When the code verbose and long it can take a long time to find the errors. The SDK and software development environment contains intelligence to help like spell and grammar correct in writing suits, SDE helpers, editing assistance, code debugging assistance and other software defined agents to help debug code are examples of AI or artificial intelligence. 

Consider the machine code or binary a stream of ones & zeros to control the system of transistors by the billions turning on and off to control the flow of information in chips or integrated circuits. Consider the difference between end user applications & firmware or drivers. Its not only how all the transistors are connected that makes all the difference, like people, it is also how the software controls the hardware that is hugely important. That is also why NVIDIA constantly updates their GPU drivers, and why many automakers like Tesla sent OTA or over-the-air wireless updates to their products. 

If you like engines and want to build a small one, get a kit and assemble the hundreds of small parts. Where springs are involved during the assembly, wear eye protection, and wearing shop gloves to protect your hands and skin on your hands from sharp edges on the parts probably also a good idea. I am not here to tell anyone how to live, only sharing thoughts and ideas from my personal bias and experiences during 40 years of living as human on Earth. 

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