There is a new Kickstarter project called Hacker Boxes which does this on steroids:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/207210015/hackerboxes-t...
-Joe, Founder http://www.hackerboxes.com/
At the moment I'm in the "bookmarked will be a late adopter if it takes of" camp.
So good luck, hope that I'll be able to throw money at you at a later point! :)
40 years old and still buckle under the slightest peer pressure.
Showed it to a friend of mine and he was instantly enthousiastic and said "let's both do it and have a monthly nerd session!"
So you go two subscriptions from Amsterdam the Netherlands half an hour ago :)