Whats good tech gift for teenage boy age under or around christmas gifts bucks

Whats good tech gift for teenage boy age under or around christmas gifts bucks
$50 Nice self co.ntained butane soldering iron the size of a highlighter –Weller I cant vouch for this one personally, but a small reliable iron that heats up in seco.nds and can be used on no notice anywhere its needed is a huge help. How often have you needed an iron, but not had a ready plug and stand for it where you were worng under the dashboard of the car? 1000 lumen rechargeable flashlight by Nitecore $50 Growing up, flashlight was a word that meant that big heavy plastic thing we keep in the kitchen drawer that glows a dim yellow and always has de batteries when we need it. No more. Nitecore makes a variety of good lights, but this is the one I keep clipped to the lip of my pocket. Because I wor.k with my hands, I like to be able to see what Im worng on, and very few things break down in the middle of a well lit wor.k bench in the garage. When something needs attention, it always seems to be at night, up underneath a dashboard, deep in a computer cabinet, or some similar difficult to see location. Since I got this light Ive never had trouble seeing what Im doing. It has the usual high/medium/low settings with some flashing options for emergency use, and when I need everything it can do, 1000 lumens is as bright as two car headlights. The battery usually goes a month or two between charges, and any 18650 charger can recharge it in a few hours. Two way radios for $25 instead of $300 It turns out that two way radios have gotten a lot cheaper over the years, but just as a teenager can charge grandma mon. ey to fix her computer, so the co.ntractors that most companies get their radios from are not in a hurry to tell everyone how easy the jo.b has become. BaoFeng radios cost between $15 and $30, and do everything you expect from a walkie talkie, but unlike what youre probably using now, BaoFeng uses better equipment and lithium ion batteries standard. This translates into much longer run times and better performance. The simple $15 radio and more complicated $30 radio can be found here, along with the cable used to program them. This link here discusses how to do it. A handy power strip for world travel – Power donut A power strip that is tiny, travels easily, and adapts to different electrical systems around the world. BlueTooth OBD2 car diagnostic scanner for $7 This tool links to your Smartphone using the Torque app and allows you to read and reset trouble codes and check engine lights. Its a cheap but invaluable tool, and great to have in any glove box. $1.25 calculator wrist watch loved by grade school kids – Link Kids 5th grade and younger find these to be the height of fashion and prtige. If you want to reward a child with an inexpensive gift that will help them academically, search Google for calculator watch and order a few. Kerbal Space Program Link $40 This game is a great way to build STEM intert in children and adults as you run a space agency for the Kerbals and try to land on the moon or go to mars. All technology in the game also exists in the real world, rockets can be built from parts like Lego bricks and all the physics are as close to real as they can make them. Soft.ware defined radio – see and hear everything on every channel with thisthumb stick $25 We all know AM and FM radio from cars, and some know more types of radio like citizens band, ham radio, etc, but until recently, receiving on more than one channel required many different radios. Not anymore. Soft.ware defined radio uses a computer to translate the signal, and this model costs $25, is the size of thumb drive, yet can receive anything from 500 Kh up to 1.7 Gh. In automotive terms, this would be like a car that could fly, drive, float on the water, dive under the water, rocket into space, yet it fit in your back pocket and cost $25. If youve ever thought about dabbling with radio, its never been cheaper or easier than this.