About Blink Our first and most popular Learn to Solder Kit; Blink features three LEDs and three push button switches. Once assembled press the buttons to watch the LEDs light up! This kit provides plenty of opportunities to perfect your soldering skill without being overwhelming. Assembly time is approximately 30 minutes to 1 hour. About Learn to Solder Kits This fun kit teaches basic soldering skills, perfect for getting hands on experience creating electronics projects. Inspired by doing outreach with high school students we wanted to create kits that used the highest quality parts and gave a sense of accomplishment at the end. Each kit has an interactive design so makers can enjoy and share their project. These kits are great for schools, home school students, workshops and weekend projects. Our kits are designed and packaged in Sacramento, CA. Buying in Bulk?Check out our Educator Pack, also avaliable on desertcart. 8 Blink Kits for $99.00! Search Learn to Solder Kit: Blink (Educator Pack) to find the listing.Specifications: Board Name: Blink Version: 1.1 Battery: 3VPackage Includes: 1 x Blink PCB 1 x LED (Red) 1 x LED (Green) 1 x LED (Blue) 3 x Resistors 3 x Push Button Switches 1 x Coin Cell Battery (3V) 1 x Battery Holder 1 x Parts List Instructions A link to detailed online instructions with full color pictures is included with the kit. There is also a contact email at the end of the instructions if you have any questions. Tools (Not Included) Soldering Iron (Required) Solder (Required) Wire Cutter (Recommended) Helping Hands (Optional) Review: My seven year old son loves watching me work on various house and electronic projects. Increasingly, he also wants to help. Unfortunately, it can be very difficult to find a way to involve him in my work, especially on some of the more advanced projects. Thus I'm increasingly trying to find simple projects I can pick up that can act as trainers for him and let him feel like he accomplished something. I've had him help with simple carpentry type projects before, but was unsure how to set up an electronics project that could involve him. I tried some more advanced projects with him, but he just doesn't have the skill or patience. I spent some time hunting around on desertcart for simple projects but didn't find much until I came across this overly simple seeming kit. I figured I would give it a shot. We set up a little stand with clips to hold the circuit board. I showed him the basics of how to use a soldering gun (carefully, seeing as he's only seven). I then helped him hold the pieces and walked him through the steps of assembling this kit. I was VERY careful in keeping in mind where the tip of the soldering iron was, and where various body parts were, as he was likely to get distracted and let the hot soldering tip meander. I (narrowly) managed to avoid getting my fingers burned and can now return with the results. It's awesome! I kept thinking it would be too simple for him, but it's simple enough that I was able to explain what each part does. He had plenty of questions and seemed to get a pretty understanding of how it worked as a result. There were few enough parts that he didn't run out of patience before soldering the whole thing together. It definitely does require full adult supervision and assistance for a seven year old, but that's to be expected. Once complete, we put the (included) battery in and he tried out the buttons. Much to his delight, pressing each button would result in one of three bright LEDs lighting up (one blue, one green, one red) as long as the button was held. Each button is associated with one colored LED, and pressing multiple buttons at the same time would result in multiple LED's lighting up. My son was delighted, as he had built this almost entirely on his own and it worked! Much to my surprise, his interest in this gadget continued long after we completed building it. He often has it handy in his room near where ever he is playing (or near his bed at night) and will have me answer questions, pushing a button for a red, green, or blue light to indicate whether my answer is right, wrong, or somewhere in the middle. He uses it at night to light the ceiling and walls various colors, and he even noticed that crossing the contacts on the switches is enough to see an LED light up very dimly (mostly only visible in a dark room), prompting a discussion about how electricity can also go through other materials like the salty moisture in your skin (don't worry, very low voltages here). As an additional bonus, since the lights are Red, Green, and Blue, you can use this to teach how to make various colors with emitted light (it's different than with reflected light, such as with paints, which have Red, Yellow, and Blue as primary colors). He can hold any combination of those colors to see what the resulting colors are on the wall at night. Keep in mind, these are the same colors as you have in the TV to display all colors (RGB). As if all that wasn't good enough, with all the playtime he's had with this thing, the battery is still going strong after several months. I call this a quality product! As a side, note, these sorts of things typically contain small amounts of chemicals that are not safe to eat or spend tons of time rubbing all over your body, so if you have a younger child, it's best to keep it out of his/her mouth. Highly rated, it was just what I needed. I've found another simple one from the same company that does slightly different things (variable light levels) and I'll be testing that next. Looking forward to it, as is my son. Review: Excellent beginner's kit. Even though one of the pins on the buttons came broken off, I still made it work. Great for those wanting to get into the hobby.
| ASIN | B017S00DJ2 |
| Assembly Required | Yes |
| Batteries | 1 Nonstandard Battery batteries required. |
| Batteries Included | No |
| Batteries Required | No |
| Best Sellers Rank | #363,701 in Toys & Games ( See Top 100 in Toys & Games ) #8,943 in Science Toys & Kits |
| Colour | Multicolor |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (391) |
| Date First Available | 19 April 2016 |
| Educational Objective(s) | STEM |
| Item Weight | 19 g |
| Item part number | 43227-2850 |
| Manufacturer | Learn to Solder Kits |
| Manufacturer recommended age | 0 months and up |
| Material Type(s) | Metal |
| Net Quantity | 1.0 Count |
| Number of Game Players | 1 |
| tech_spec_battery_description_toys | Alkaline |
F**D
My seven year old son loves watching me work on various house and electronic projects. Increasingly, he also wants to help. Unfortunately, it can be very difficult to find a way to involve him in my work, especially on some of the more advanced projects. Thus I'm increasingly trying to find simple projects I can pick up that can act as trainers for him and let him feel like he accomplished something. I've had him help with simple carpentry type projects before, but was unsure how to set up an electronics project that could involve him. I tried some more advanced projects with him, but he just doesn't have the skill or patience. I spent some time hunting around on Amazon for simple projects but didn't find much until I came across this overly simple seeming kit. I figured I would give it a shot. We set up a little stand with clips to hold the circuit board. I showed him the basics of how to use a soldering gun (carefully, seeing as he's only seven). I then helped him hold the pieces and walked him through the steps of assembling this kit. I was VERY careful in keeping in mind where the tip of the soldering iron was, and where various body parts were, as he was likely to get distracted and let the hot soldering tip meander. I (narrowly) managed to avoid getting my fingers burned and can now return with the results. It's awesome! I kept thinking it would be too simple for him, but it's simple enough that I was able to explain what each part does. He had plenty of questions and seemed to get a pretty understanding of how it worked as a result. There were few enough parts that he didn't run out of patience before soldering the whole thing together. It definitely does require full adult supervision and assistance for a seven year old, but that's to be expected. Once complete, we put the (included) battery in and he tried out the buttons. Much to his delight, pressing each button would result in one of three bright LEDs lighting up (one blue, one green, one red) as long as the button was held. Each button is associated with one colored LED, and pressing multiple buttons at the same time would result in multiple LED's lighting up. My son was delighted, as he had built this almost entirely on his own and it worked! Much to my surprise, his interest in this gadget continued long after we completed building it. He often has it handy in his room near where ever he is playing (or near his bed at night) and will have me answer questions, pushing a button for a red, green, or blue light to indicate whether my answer is right, wrong, or somewhere in the middle. He uses it at night to light the ceiling and walls various colors, and he even noticed that crossing the contacts on the switches is enough to see an LED light up very dimly (mostly only visible in a dark room), prompting a discussion about how electricity can also go through other materials like the salty moisture in your skin (don't worry, very low voltages here). As an additional bonus, since the lights are Red, Green, and Blue, you can use this to teach how to make various colors with emitted light (it's different than with reflected light, such as with paints, which have Red, Yellow, and Blue as primary colors). He can hold any combination of those colors to see what the resulting colors are on the wall at night. Keep in mind, these are the same colors as you have in the TV to display all colors (RGB). As if all that wasn't good enough, with all the playtime he's had with this thing, the battery is still going strong after several months. I call this a quality product! As a side, note, these sorts of things typically contain small amounts of chemicals that are not safe to eat or spend tons of time rubbing all over your body, so if you have a younger child, it's best to keep it out of his/her mouth. Highly rated, it was just what I needed. I've found another simple one from the same company that does slightly different things (variable light levels) and I'll be testing that next. Looking forward to it, as is my son.
M**G
Excellent beginner's kit. Even though one of the pins on the buttons came broken off, I still made it work. Great for those wanting to get into the hobby.
S**.
This great little kit was the first thing that I have ever soldered together in my life. I was able to complete it in under an hour - and it all works too! I'm a complete beginner who is just starting out in soldering, and I really enjoyed attempting this kit and I felt a lot of satisfaction when I was done. There's great instructions available online from their website too.
S**.
This was definitely a fun project to work on! My first time soldering ever and I nailed it within 19 to 20 minutes. Just that easy to work with. Had a tough time desoldering though, probably my mistake when soldering but overall it’s a dope kit. If I had to teach someone, I would recommend this. Would like to try the other kits too. Wish it was a tad bit larger but dope nonetheless!
C**R
I bought some of these to help teach the Electronics Merit Badge to a group of Boy Scouts. The kit has all the parts and easy to follow instructions. The boys had a great time and learned a lot. Would definitely recommend for young people learning to solder and how electronic components work.
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