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The tiny engineer superhero emergency kit

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The tiny engineer superhero emergency kit will save you. Recall the countless times you desperately needed a 1 KOhm resistor to fix an amplifier at a party, only to see whoever you were trying to impress slip away with an OCaml programmer? Never again with this little kit. Consider the times when you were too drunk to recall Ohm’s Law, yet was called in to fix a spaceship’s control system. V=IR is written on the board to rescue you into awesomeness in spite of your inebriated state. 

The kit includes one circuit board (37.3x37x1.6 mm, ENIG finish), two resistors (1K Ohm and 220 Ohm), one capacitor (0.1 uF), one NPN FET (2N7000) and a yellow LED. The kit comes unassembled; the components need to be cut to size and soldered into place to create a working circuit (the LED lights up!). Also included are two compressed cellulose sponges that snugly fit in the tin when wet, and will help you clean your soldering iron! 

More information here at boldport 

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