Educational model kits
Real machines.
Real engineering.
Built by kids.
Hand-crafted kits that model everyday machines — with illustrated guides explaining the science inside them.
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Ages 8+
Designed for
3 kits
Available now
Engineer-designed
By an electronic engineer
Melbourne
Made in Australia
The kits
Pick a machine. Build it. Understand it.
Each kit includes laser-cut wooden parts and an illustrated engineering guide.
Excavator
Build a working hydraulic arm using syringes and tubing. Learn Pascal's law.
AU $65
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Dynamo
Spin a magnet inside a copper coil and light an LED. Learn electromagnetic induction.
AU $55
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Elevator
Build a counterweighted elevator with limit switches. Learn mechanical advantage.
AU $60
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Build the model
Laser-cut wooden parts snap and fit together. No glue needed for most kits.
Watch it work
Moving parts, real mechanisms. The excavator arm really lifts. The dynamo really lights an LED.
Read the science
The included guide connects your model to the real machine and the engineering principles behind it.
The science inside
Every kit teaches something real
Kinemodel kits are grounded in the engineering principles used in the real machines they represent.
Pascal's law
How hydraulic arms multiply force — in excavators, car brakes, and factory presses.
Electromagnetic induction
Why spinning a magnet inside a coil generates electricity — in every power station on Earth.
Mechanical advantage
How pulleys and gears let you lift heavy loads with less force.
Counterweights
Why elevators are efficient — and why cranes don't fall over when they lift.
Built by an engineer, for curious kids
Electronic engineer · Father · Maker · Melbourne, Australia
I built the first Kinemodel kits with my own children — an excavator, a dynamo, an elevator. When they asked "but how does the real one work?", I knew the kit needed a guide as much as it needed moving parts.
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Kits ship within 3 business days. Free shipping on orders over AU $80.
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