Empower your child’s future with real neuroscience!
Give your child the ultimate advantage: real neuroscience experiences that impress universities, win science fairs, and ignite lifelong passions.
The neuroscience kit for kids: real science.
Backyard Brains neuroscience kits offer your child a rare and powerful edge—authentic neuroscience experimentation at home. These aren’t toys; they’re transformative tools designed by neuroscientists to propel your child to new academic heights. This STEM kit for teens records real signals from your own body. Pick a science fair neuroscience project and build it from one of these kits.
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Human SpikerBox
Advanced Human Physiology Lab Kit
Unlock serious human physiology experiments typically reserved for university labs. Your child can visualize and record their own nerve signals, muscle activity, and brainwaves in real time.
$299.99
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The Claw
EMG-Controlled Neuroprosthetic
Give your child hands-on experience with brain-machine interfaces. Using their own muscle signals, they’ll control a real robotic claw, learning precisely how neuroprosthetics operate.
$149.99
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RoboRoach
Build a Real Cyborg
Allow your child to create an actual living cyborg using a live cockroach and their mobile device. They’ll explore real-world neuro-interventions like deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s and cochlear implants.
$199.99
Why parents choose Backyard Brains:
Academic Excellence
Proven results in science fairs, competitions, and college admissions.
University-Grade Tools
Trusted by leading schools and universities worldwide.
Safe, Easy, Engaging
Comprehensive, step-by-step guides make real neuroscience experiments accessible and enjoyable at home.
Give your child the tools to lead, innovate, and succeed.
Order now and transform their future today!
For clubs & homeschool groups
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Spiker:bit Class Set with micro:bits
Serves 20 students in 10 stations
Ten Spiker:bits and ten micro:bits for a club or homeschool group: kids work in pairs and code with their own muscle signals.
What’s inside
- 10 × Spiker:bit - Muscle EMG Sensor Kit for Micro:bit Projects 15% off
- 10 × Micro:Bit 1 Pack at list price
- List price
- $1,199.80
- Class-set saving
- −$149.90
- Total
- $1,049.90
- Per student
- $52 (rounded to the dollar)
Add a semester of supplies: electrodes, at list price.
List price is our education price. Buying a class set? 5 or more of the same kit: 10% off those kits. 10 or more: 15% off.
Buying for a school, club or homeschool group?
Instant quote
Build a quote with your items and shipping address, and see tax and your total before you order.
Pay by purchase order
Net 30. Open your quote, choose Send PO, enter your PO number and upload the PO as a PDF. We invoice you, due in 30 days. $20 PO processing fee on orders of $1,000 or less; no fee over $1,000.
Keep exploring
Ideas, experiments and research for your child.
Science fair projects
Project ideas that use these kits, from the science fair page.
See project ideasExperiments
Choose a guided investigation and see every step, with the time it takes.
Open the Lesson FinderPublications
Peer-reviewed research from the Backyard Brains team.
Read the research
Start with the Human SpikerBox. It records your own muscle, heart and brain signals, and we recommend it as the starting point for grades 5 to 12. The Claw, a robotic gripper your child controls with their own muscles, is for Grade 4 and up; younger children need an adult to help place the electrodes.
Yes on Windows, macOS, Linux, Chromebook and Android. On an iPhone or iPad, only the Neuron SpikerBox, Human SpikerBox and SpikeStation (coming 2027) work, because they have Apple’s iAP chip. SpikerBot runs on every operating system. The SpikeRecorder 3.0 app for Chromebooks is soft-launched through our support team.
List price is our education price. Buying a class set? 5 or more of the same kit: 10% off those kits. 10 or more: 15% off. Club and homeschool orders are quoted the same way, so ask our team for a quote with the kits you want.
Yes. Build a quote with your items and shipping address, choose Send PO and upload the purchase order as a PDF. Payment is due in 30 days. A $20 fee applies to orders of $1,000 or less.
The science fair page lists project ideas, and the Lesson Finder shows each experiment’s time and kit, with every step.