Boldport Buggy

by Boldport

This simple and playful soldering kit is based on the on the beautiful Buggy circuit board designed by Saar Drimer of Boldport, originally created as a badge for the hardwear.io hardware security conference in The Hague.

This new version of the Buggy is a complete kit. It features an updated circuit board, six candle-flicker LEDs, six pairs of current-limiting resistors as legs, insulating socks on its (otherwise conductive) feet, a power switch, and it even comes with a battery. The posable antennae and feet and give this little kit quite the charming personality.

This kit includes the following components:

  • The Boldport Buggy circuit board
  • Six candle flicker LEDs, yellow, in two sizes
  • Battery holder
  • One CR2032 coin cell
  • Power switch
  • Resistors for legs and antennae
  • Red tubing for the socks
  • Printed assembly instructions

The Boldport Buggy is sold as a soldering kit. Basic electronic soldering skill is required, and you provide standard soldering tools: a soldering iron + solder and small ("flush") wire clippers. Battery (one CR2032 coin cell) is included. No additional knowledge of electronics is presumed or required.

Clear, full-color printed instructions are provided with the kit.

Lead Free

Buggy kits are RoHS compliant (lead free). If you're building one of our kits, you'll find that everything works well with either regular or lead-free solder-- whichever you care to use.

4 customer reviews

4 years ago
What a great webpage and product. My son is new to soldering and loved making the bug. Really great products and service thank you we will be back!
by Anonymous about Boldport Buggy via REVIEWS.io
5 years ago
It is fun to build and expose this not so little buggy. It has thorough colourful instruction about all aspects of building it, but of course not for small kids - they won't be able to do it or appreciate process, but definitely will enjoy playing with it. Also nice to have contacts on it that would allow to solder it to power mains and convert to nightlight. What would be nice to have is principal electrical diagram of buggy to fulfil interest in how it works. One drawback why reducing start to 4: one of the LED is not very stable in work, I suppose quality control should be better.
by Ekaterina about Boldport Buggy via REVIEWS.io
9 years ago
My child, aged 11, had started an interest in electrical engineering. He showed how passionate he was to be an engineer when he grew up, but we couldn't find any simple way to teach him. I looked online at websites, youtube videos and he asked teachers at school, but none of them succeeded in making him understand. So i looked online for electronic starter kits and every website that had it was very expensive. I searched for a long time and eventually cam across a guide on a website. It contained a video with an advert at the beginning for Pimoroni. I clicked the link to the website and it was perfect. My son loved it, i loved it and it had everything he needed, from motors to transistors to computers! This product is great. It is challenging to assemble some parts( but nothing is good without a challenge) but also very fun. He enjoyed it and it made me happy to see that. Thank you so much Pimoroni for inspiring my son. This is a great website which can do great things. It is a supershop!!
by Mourice about Boldport Buggy via REVIEWS.io