Curriculum

Real projects you can build for real.

Pick a project, open it in the Studio to play, then take the shopping list to a real breadboard. Fifteen builds, from a first blinking LED to an Arduino-driven distance sensor.

Start with Tier 1. Each tier builds on the last.

Start here

New to electronics? Read the Foundations first.

14 short lessons. About an hour total. Each one ends with a small interactive demo so the ideas stick.

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Practice

Hands-on Labs — try it before you build the real thing.

Eight short sandboxes that drop you into a half-built circuit and ask you to finish it. Continuous feedback. Friendly hints. No wrong answer punishments.

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Start Lab 1
Tier 1

First Sparks

Everything you need to make a real LED glow with your own hands.

Tier 2

Timer Magic

Meet the 555 — the chip that lets your circuit keep its own time.

Tier 3

Code the Real World

Add a microcontroller, write a few lines of code, and your circuit listens, watches, and responds.

Tier 4

Saves Lives

Six ambitious projects that show how the things you’re learning can matter for someone’s safety.

Build a few first projects to unlock

Six ambitious projects that connect what you’ve been learning to something that matters: a flood alarm, a vaccine fridge monitor, an earthquake detector, an air-quality light, a medication reminder, and a turn-signal vest.

They unlock once you’ve marked 5 First Builds as built — or finished all 8 Hands-on Labs. Either path works.

First Builds marked built

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Hands-on Labs cleared

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Got everything? Show us what you built — #SparkLab

Tag a parent or teacher and they can help you photograph it.