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.

12 customer reviews

3 years ago
Works a treat. I'm now using old lithium batteries I scavenged from a vacuum cleaner to power my raspberry pi 4, save in the knowledge that the shim will keep my pi safe!
by Graeme about LiPo SHIM for Raspberry Pi via REVIEWS.io
5 years ago
A great lightweight solution to put my Raspberry PI zero into a rocket and get some great photos from above.
by Philip about LiPo SHIM for Raspberry Pi via REVIEWS.io
5 years ago
The perfect power source for your Raspberry Pi Zero W HQ Camera combo! https://github.com/PaulZC/Pi_Zero_HQ_Camera_Adapter
by Paul about LiPo SHIM for Raspberry Pi via REVIEWS.io
5 years ago
It is a practically necessary piece of kit all things considered. I strongly recomment using it coupled with the stacking headers, so that you can still take advantage of the pins which aren't used by the shim
by Savvas about LiPo SHIM for Raspberry Pi via REVIEWS.io
7 years ago
Great product as always! Wanted to add a lightweight power source to my raspberry pi zero robot and using this circuit with a LiPo battery was just what I was looking for.
by Sam about LiPo SHIM for Raspberry Pi via REVIEWS.io
8 years ago
This is a great piece of kit - you can either solder the board directly to the Pi's GPIO (like I did) or attach female headers that you can pop onto the Pi's headers if you want to remove it later on. I've also soldered a switch to the board, so that I can turn it on and off... well, at a flick of a switch! This makes a battery powered, yet compact, Raspberry Pi!
by Wesley about LiPo SHIM for Raspberry Pi via REVIEWS.io

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