Friends just passed down their Little Tikes STEM lab (
https://www.littletikes.com/stemjr/wonderlab) to us and our toddler DD, also a tinkerer, is completely fascinated by it. She'll literally play with it for hours.
We've also found Lidl's Playtive toy line pretty good. The problem is their inventory is really in-and-out so you have to watch the weekly ads or just get lucky, but they have all kinds of inexpensive wooden buildable toys and things like tool playsets. To give you an idea:
https://www.lidl.de/de/playtive-junior/b7228 (sorry, it's in German, but it's got great photos.

And we have found some of these toys at the Springfield Lidl).