Electronics Skills Kit 101

Simone says solder. Her brother would say the same but he'll get us into copyright trouble. Follow our guide to assemble this kit and you'll learn essential soldering skills, what a capacitor does, how to interpret the color bands on resistors, and which way a diode goes on a circuit. Not sure what a diode is? You’ll learn that too.

The completed kit will test your memory and reflexes. Simone says press the 4 buttons to repeat the randomly generated pattern played audibly and on 4 LEDs. There are four difficulty levels and the replay speed gradually increases until you quadruple in size and your complexion turns green. But we'll leave that copyright trouble for another day.

3 AA batteries are required, but not included.