Learn to solder PCB badge kit by MAKE Magazine - MakerSHED

SKU: ADA496 Brand: Adafruit

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2012 robot design! Hone your soldering skills with MAKE Magazine's / MakerSHED's "Learn to Solder" skill badge kit.

Custom PCB
2 red LEDs - independently blinking
Coin cell Battery
Battery holder
Tie-tack pin
Pin back (clutch type)

Adafruit offers a fun and exciting "badges" of achievement for electronics, science and engineering. Adafruit believe everyone should be able to be rewarded for learning a useful skill, a badge is just one of the many ways to show and share.

The badge is skillfully designed, after you solder it together, the backing is a pin, so you just pin it to your clothing, bag or whatever.

Technical Details

Custom PCB
2 red LEDs - independently blinking
Coin cell Battery
Battery holder
Tie-tack pin
Pin back (clutch type)

Here are MAKE's instructions. Instructions are also printed on the back of the PCB.

Here are MAKE's instructions, they are for the previous version but they're basically the same!

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