Young Engineers / Other

Experiment with paper electronics with this silver conductive ink pen that will let you draw traces! We like the make of this pen, it has a nice liquid silver ink that flows easily, and it works great. In just 3 minutes from opening the packaging, we made the image above, a coin cell holder with an LED. There are two 'tips' available - standard and micro. The...

A perfect match for our E is for Electronics coloring book, this pack of quality Crayola crayons has 8 bright non-toxic colors. Color ALL the things! Coloring book not included.

Peep the ROAR! Awards 2019 Gold Winner for Best Teen-Tween Product, the Space Girl Soldering Kit from Elkei Education! Project-based kits are a great way to show how to work with circuits, how to troubleshoot, and the possibilities of what you can create in a guided activity. Kit includes a custom-designed printed circuit board, LEDs, on/off switch, badge pin and...

Create a mini 3D version of the Space Shuttle STS Discovery with this beautifully designed soldering kit from Phyx, our maker friends in Belgium. This small card-style PCB kit requires a CR2032 coin cell battery (not included) to power 3 candle-style flickering LEDs-as-thrusters. Assembly Instructions Carefully depanelize the PCB by bending pieces out.(Optional) File...

Enter the world of cardboard construction and build playful robot friends! Instead of slapping on tape or waiting for your hot glue to warm up, you can use these Plastic Pop Rivets! So easy to install. Just poke them through the cardboard and fasten with the back piece. This will ensure clean, movable joints and attachments. You can even remove them with some effort...

Enter the world of cardboard construction and build playful robot friends! Instead of slapping on tape or waiting for your hot glue to warm up, you can use these Large Plastic Rivets! They have a large honkin' 19mm diameter rivet face, for mega surface contact. They're so easy to install. Just poke or cut a 9mm diameter hole in your cardboard, then side one half...

Create a 3D Art Deco-like Cat Lamp with this beautifully designed soldering kit from our maker friends down under, Elkei Education. When assembled and powered on, the lamp turns on when the surroundings get dark thanks to a light sensor. Snap out the pieces in this immersion gold and matte black circuit board and start soldering and assembling. Project-based kits are...

Enter the world of cardboard construction and build playful robot friends! Instead of slapping on tape or waiting for your hot glue to warm up, you can use these Large Plastic Rivets! So easy to install. Just poke them through the cardboard and fasten with the back piece. This will ensure clean, movable joints and attachments. You can even remove them with some...

Enter the world of cardboard construction and build playful robot friends! Instead of slapping on tape or waiting for your hot glue to warm up, you can use these Plastic Snap Rivets! So easy to install. Just poke them through the cardboard and fasten with the back piece. This will ensure clean, movable joints and attachments. You can even remove them with some effort...

Looking for something for the little engineer in your life? The Makedo Scru Add-On pack is a perfect complement to the Makedo Toolkit – a great introduction to the land of Makedo. Enter into the world of playful cardboard construction and build small creations with these reusable parts. Rocket ships, cars, dinosaurs, a knight in cardboard armor – build...

We love mixing nostalgia with technology! We love accessorizing our Circuit Playgrounds! What better way to add a splash of color and character to one of your favorite Adafruit boards than with these Cartoon Network Character Stickers! The whole gang from your childhood is here, plus some new faces! We've curated a great assortment of 22 stickers, from deliciously...

We're with the squad back at New York's hottest cyberpunk club, Near Field Commune(ication), and it's still got everything, Adabot & the Circuit Playground, Collin's wondrous, mind-blowing, heart-stirring Pulse Room, and more! And you are dressed to the cyber-nine's, with wearable LEDs, EL tape, a full set of glittering RFID/NFC Nail Stickers, and some luminous,...

We're with the squad back at New York's hottest cyberpunk club, Near Field Commune(ication), and it's still got everything, Adabot & the Circuit Playground, Collin's wondrous, mind-blowing, heart-stirring Pulse Room, and more! And you are dressed to the cyber-nine's, with wearable LEDs, EL tape, a full set of glittering RFID/NFC Nail Stickers, and some luminous,...

We're with the squad back at New York's hottest cyberpunk club, Near Field Commune(ication), and it's still got everything, Adabot & the Circuit Playground, Collin's wondrous, mind-blowing, heart-stirring Pulse Room, and more! And you are dressed to the cyber-nine's, with wearable LEDs, EL tape, a full set of glittering RFID/NFC Nail Stickers, and some luminous,...

We're with the squad back at New York's hottest cyberpunk club, Near Field Commune(ication), and it's still got everything, Adabot & the Circuit Playground, Collin's wondrous, mind-blowing, heart-stirring Pulse Room, and more! And you are dressed to the cyber-nine's, with wearable LEDs, EL tape, a full set of glittering RFID/NFC Nail Stickers, and some luminous,...

Here is a sleek and self-healing hobby mat designed for LEGO® and other brick-builders of all experience levels. The material is very similar to hobby/sewing/cutting mats. The grid design includes helpful layout grids and two radius angle guides. In the upper left corner you get a neat little reference legend for "brick math" along with the height of a LEGO...

Peep the ROAR! Awards 2019 Gold Winner for Best Teen-Tween Product, from down under comes the Biology Girl Soldering Kit from Elkei Education! Project-based kits are a great way to show how to work with circuits, how to troubleshoot, and the possibilities of what you can create in a guided activity. Kit includes a custom-designed printed circuit board, LEDs, on/off...

Add extra-sensory powers to your toolkit with this nifty piece of HD Magnet Viewing Film. It's a special film that contains a ferromagnetic slurry of ultra-small nickel particles that turns black when around a magnetic field. Unlike some of the older films you may remember from grade school science class, this stuff is 'high resolution' so you can really see the...

We're with the squad back at New York's hottest cyberpunk club, Near Field Commune(ication), and it's still got everything, Adabot & the Circuit Playground, Collin's wondrous, mind-blowing, heart-stirring Pulse Room, and more! And you are dressed to the cyber-nine's, with wearable LEDs, EL tape, a full set of glittering RFID/NFC Nail Stickers, and some luminous,...

From the creative and cat-lovin' engineers at KittenBot comes the Meowbit - a handheld retro gaming computer for coding your own games with MakeCode Arcade and MicroPython. This design is really fun, with a GameBoy-like shape that can plug into micro:bit expansion boards. The built in display is a 160x128 color 1.8" TFT screen with the familiar ST7735 chipset over...

Looking for something for the little engineer in your life? The Makedo Cardboard Construction Mini-Kit is a perfect complement to the Makedo Toolkit – a great introduction to the land of Makedo. Enter into the world of playful cardboard construction and build small creations with these reusable parts. Rocket ships, cars, dinosaurs, a knight in cardboard armor...

What was your first handheld gaming console? Do you ever wish you could go back to those long car rides as you happily button-mashed in the back seat? Handheld game devices have come a long way since the 1979 release of the 16x16 pixel Milton Bradley Microvision. Nowadays consoles, like the Nintendo Switch, have incredible resolutions and capabilities. Handheld...

Here at Adafruit, we envision a future where robots, humans, cyborgs, replicants, cylons, and all other types of artificial intelligence and electro-human hybrids will live in absolute harmony. While we love a great fictional dystopia, we certainly wouldn't want to live in one. That's why we made this 48-piece beginner puzzle based on our poster that's designed by...

The Brushbot Party Pack is a perfect way to upgrade your next kids party. In just a few quick steps, turn the 12 toothbrushes, motors, and batteries in the kit into spinning, speeding “bots” that can be customized with the included goofy decals and numbers. The toothbrush bristles act as hundreds of tiny legs that send the BrushBots buzzing and bumping on their...

There are two 'tips' available - standard and micro. The microtip allows for finer control but is a little harder to use (because it doesn't deposit as much silver at once).The CW2200STP (standard tip pen) has an orifice size of 1 mm and will draw traces that will average 2.0 mm in width. The CW2200MTP (micro-tip pen) has an orifice size of 0.7 mm and will draw...

The Werkstatt-Ø1: Kit from Moog is a patchable and compact, one oscillator analog synthesizer. It was originally created as a kit, to be the foundation for exclusive “Engineering VIP” workshops at Moogfest 2014. Due to a number of requests, Moog is now offering this no-soldering-required version and assembly is extremely simple! Werkstatt was...

Papertronics by Sparkle Labs are paper toys with paper electronic circuits in them. The Lunar Landers come in a pack of three. Spaceboy, Alien Girl and Tabula Rasa. Tabula Rasa is blank and can be designed by you.Turn them into a cool night light, partylights or a fun additions to a room or desk. When the spaceships are put in their landers one way, they light up....

Discontinued - you can grab any one of our many STICKERS instead! 33 total. Each one peels off, they're about 2" x 2" each (50mm x 50mm). Individually the stickers are usually $1.50 each (a few are $1.00/$1.25 each). When you get all 33 you save $13.00 ! 3D printing - Sticker!. Oscilloscope - Sticker!. Sparky the Magic Blue Smoke Monster - Sticker!. Circuit bender! -...

Design your own interactive light-up creation! Make a photo album that shines when you flip through it, a photo frame that lights up in the dark, a scrapbooking page that twinkles when you talk (with added sound/tilt/proximity sensors), and so much more. The Dazzu is an easy but inspiring introduction to wearable electronics. The Dazzu board is a flexible,...

FirstScope pays tribute to the men and women who brought us one step closer to understanding the universe around us! In 1609, world-renowned Italian scientist, Galileo Galilei, introduced an elementary telescope to the growing astronomy community which sparked interest into the mysterious night sky for centuries to come. Four centuries later, Celestron offers the...

Made a Drawdio but still want more? This fully-assembled kit contains Drawdio innards as part of a big plastic brush so it acts like a half-theramin/half-paintbrush. When painting, the conductivity of the watercolors changes the sound pitch that comes out of the little speaker in the brush. Can be used on most surfaces with just water—no paints required! NOTE:...

Card games? LAME! Board games? BORING! Add some frickin' lasers to your game-night with the game that combines lasers with classic strategy. Players alternate turns moving Egyptian-themed pieces having two, one or no mirrored surfaces. All four types of pieces (pharaoh, anubis, pyramid and scarab) can either move one square forward, back, left, right, or diagonal, or...

OK so it's not really a Nixie tube, its more like a paper seven-segment LED display but still, retro and futuristic at the same time! Scratch away the gold foil to reveal the pink neon 7-segment font. Create your own messages! 5x7" folded blank card, scratch tool, and envelope. Made in the USA Nixie Seven-Segment Art Scratch-Off Card (1:57)

Analog and digital merge into an interactive winner. Scratch away the gold foil to reveal neon green pixels. Create your own messages and pictures! Perfect for when you have that urge to make pixel art 5x7" folded blank card, scratch tool, and envelope. Made in the USA Pixel Art Scratch-Off Card (1:57)

Never go looking for some AAA's again, this solar racer car requires no batteries! The Volta Racer Solar Motorcar Kit contains all of the necessary parts required to successfully assemble your car - including the worlds first flexible polycrystalline silicon solar cell used for powering toys. No special tools or batteries are required - just your hands! Makes for a...

Rainbow highlighters will color your messages and cheer up your workplace. Ideal for home, office or school use. A colorful way to leave your mark! A set of 4 colors Rainbow Highlighters by OTOTO (4:07)

An animated world of color and discovery on your iPad!™ IMarker™ digital stylus + Crayola ColorStudio HD App iMarker + ColorStudio HD App iMarker is the key to unlock limitless discovery and play on your iPad. It's a digital marker, crayon, pencil and paint brush that interacts with the Crayola ColorStudio HD™ app to create all your favorite Crayola...

What do you get when you cross Arduino with a Game Boy? Arduboy FX - Open Source Card-Sized Gaming Boy ! The game system the size of a credit card! Create your own games, learn to program or download from a library of open source games for free! Preview all of the games online with the Arduboy FX Simulator! [BETA] Arduboy is a hardware development platform based on...

The season of spooky is nigh and here at the Adafruit factory we love Halloween! We have soo many guides in the Adafruit Learn System whether you want to make a HalloWing spirit board, a glowing smokey skull, or a NeoPixel masquerade mask... Speaking of wearables... We couldn't let us humans have all the fun! Even our Circuit Playground friends have costumes! Peep...

The season of spooky is nigh and here at the Adafruit factory we love Halloween! We have soo many guides in the Adafruit Learn System whether you want to make a HalloWing spirit board, a glowing smokey skull, or a NeoPixel masquerade mask... Speaking of wearables... We couldn't let us humans have all the fun! Even our Circuit Playground friends have costumes. Peep...

Discontinued - you can grab Makedo Cardboard Construction Mini-Kit - 6 Scrus and Mini-Tool instead! Looking for something for the little engineer in your life? The Makedo Toolkit is a starter kit of cardboard construction tools that's a great introduction to Makedo. Enter into the world of playful cardboard construction and build small creations with 30 reusable...