You're stranded 100 feet underwater on an alien planet. Your ship's control panel is destroyed. Over 30 days, you complete repair missions — building real circuits with real components to bring each system back online. Lights. Solar arrays. Security. Navigation. A full launch panel. Then you get off this rock.
Every lesson is a professionally produced video taught by Dr. Greg Lyzenga — college professor at Harvey Mudd and scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This isn't a YouTube tutorial. Each lesson was filmed with a 20–30 person professional crew, written by professional scriptwriters, with hundreds of thousands of dollars in production behind it. The result is something that feels more like a show than a course.
30 lessons. 30 missions. 30 real circuits. Ages 6 and up. No experience needed — just curiosity and the kit. Every lesson is free to watch. The kit is $100 at craftingtable.com.
The course is split into six chapters, each focused on a different ship system you need to repair. You start in total darkness and work your way up to a full launch sequence.
Your cabin is pitch black. Learn to wire LEDs, use resistors and breadboards, control switches, and mix colors with RGB LEDs. By the end of the week you've restored light to your workspace and written your first programs.
Battery levels are critical. Build light-sensing circuits with photoresistors and phototransistors to monitor and repair the solar array. Add color with RGB LEDs and build a smart battery status indicator that changes color based on power levels.
Space pirates are trying to access your ship. Wire a piezo buzzer for alarms, program a 4x4 keypad for passcode entry, build a full security lock system, and add potentiometer-controlled visual alerts. Your ship now has ears, a voice, and a locked front door.
Time to ascend. Wire 7-segment displays for depth readings, decode cryptic messages with multi-digit displays, use shift registers to control banks of LEDs, and build a rotary encoder dial for precision navigation. You're rising through sixty meters of ocean toward the surface.
You've reached the surface of an alien world. Now build the launch control system. Wire an OLED display for graphics and status readouts, master the keypad for command input, connect a 7-segment countdown display alongside the OLED, and wire a three-switch arming sequence — THRUST, SYSTEMS, CONFIRM — for liftoff.
Final stretch. Optimize your OLED with bitmap graphics and custom animations for docking at speed. Build an autopilot interface with DIP-switch menus. Deploy landing gear with servo motors and safety interlocks. Then dock with the mother ship and complete your mission. You're going home.
HERO board, breadboard, LEDs, RGB LED, resistors, photoresistor, phototransistor, buttons and switches, DIP switches, rotary encoder, potentiometer, piezo buzzer, 7-segment displays, shift register, display driver IC, matrix keypad, servo motor, OLED display, jumper wires, USB cable, and a project guide booklet.
Plus 3 bonus e-books with 50+ additional projects and a crash course on voltage, current, and resistance fundamentals.
Complete beginners. Ages 6 and up. Kids, teens, adults, retirees. Each lesson takes 30–60 minutes and you go at your own pace with lifetime access. Schools use it for STEM curriculum — there's an education platform at computer.craftingtable.com/edu with teacher dashboards and student tracking.
No prior experience with coding, electronics, or circuits. Just open the box and press play.
Get the kit. Start the mission.
$100 with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Ships to USA, Canada, UK, and Australia.
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