An electronics kit with the parts for all five CraftingTable story adventures, plus a 37-in-1 sensor kit and a robotic arm. No experience needed: for ages 12 and up, from your first blinking light to wireless gadgets you coded yourself.
Price: $349 · Preorder
This batch sold out, so you're ordering from the next one. It ships about 30 days from the day you order. Same price, and you can cancel for a full refund any time before it ships.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 from 7 customer reviews.
The Electronics Master Crate holds the parts for all five CraftingTable adventures. Each adventure is a story you play by building: wire a circuit on the breadboard, write the code, and watch it work on your desk.
You start crash-landed sixty metres under an alien sea in 30 Days Lost in Space. Then you build defences against an AI that slipped out of control in Pandora's Box, switch to Python with Kai and a drone named Orion in Neon Realm, and patch up a ship that will not stop breaking in Nebula Raiders. Cogsworth City, a clockwork city, fits in anywhere. At three lessons a week, the 206 lessons last well over a year.
Each one is a story course with its own builds. The board is what changes between them.
A few of the builds across the five adventures and the robotic arm course.
The opening of 30 Days Lost in Space, where the crate starts.
Lessons name the parts to pull from the box, show the wiring and walk through the code line by line. On a HERO board you send your code straight from the lesson page in Chrome or Edge. The two Python adventures use the Thonny editor, which you set up in their first lesson.
In 30 Days Lost in Space, every build is also wired up in the browser simulator, so you can run it on screen before you touch a wire. Stuck? The AI guide inside the lesson gives hints, not answers. It is not a live person.
You code three of them in C++ and the Pico WH in Python, and learn which board a job calls for.
The 37-in-1 Sensor Kit is a case of plug-in sensor modules: temperature, sound, tilt, flame, heartbeat, a laser, a joystick and more. It has its own course of 31 lessons, all on video.
Pull a module out whenever an adventure, or an idea of your own, needs a new sense.
The 4-DOF robotic arm comes as acrylic pieces and four servos. Its course starts with the build: put it together, wire the servos to the HERO board and code its first moves.
Then come six challenges with the finished arm: pull blocks from a tower without toppling it, clamp a marker in the claw and draw, drop balls through a hoop, and more.
53 kinds of component across the five adventures, plus the 37-in-1 sensor kit and the robotic arm, packed together as one mixed set. Some of what you'll find:
The crate holds the parts to complete all five adventures, packed as one mixed set rather than five sealed kits. Where two adventures use the same part, it's in the box once: both Python adventures run on the Pico WH, so there is one Pico WH.
So don't count the pile against five separate kit lists. Use the parts checklist at craftingtable.com/crate instead. It lists every part by adventure, with pictures, and you can tick each one off as you find it. If something is genuinely missing, contact support and we'll send it.
“Easy to follow and entertaining at the same time, I have the master crate and almost finished with 30 days lost in space. My next adventure will be pandoras box.” — Robert P.
“I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to using this kit! Things I've always wanted to explore and now I have a kit to do them. Winter is looking good for me!” — Kevin W.
“Just started and love all the potential to Learn” — Dale S.
| Adventures | 30 Days Lost in Space, Pandora's Box, Neon Realm, Nebula Raiders, Cogsworth City |
|---|---|
| Also in the box | 37-in-1 Sensor Kit, 4-DOF Robotic Arm |
| Boards | HERO board, HERO XL, T-Display ESP32, Raspberry Pi Pico WH |
| Languages | C++ (HERO board, HERO XL, ESP32) and MicroPython (Pico WH) |
| Lessons | 206 across the five adventures, 152 with video. Plus 31 for the sensor kit and 9 for the robotic arm |
| Components | 53 kinds across the five adventures, plus the sensor kit and the arm |
| Packing | One mixed set, no duplicate parts. Checklist at craftingtable.com/crate |
| Ages | 12 and up. No experience needed |
| Computer | Windows or Mac with Chrome or Edge and an internet connection. Chromebook with limits (see Questions) |
| Availability | Preorder: ships about 30 days from the day you order |
30 Days Lost in Space is the first adventure on its own, and the place the crate starts.
| Electronics Master Crate | 30 Days Lost in Space | |
|---|---|---|
| Adventures | All five, plus the 37-in-1 sensor kit and the robotic arm | 30 Days Lost in Space |
| Lessons | 206 across the five adventures, plus the sensor kit and arm courses | 31, all on video |
| Boards | HERO board, HERO XL, T-Display ESP32, Pico WH | HERO board |
| Languages | C++ and MicroPython | C++ |
| Kinds of component | 53, plus the sensor kit and the arm | 12 |
| Ships | Preorder: about 30 days from your order | Within a few business days |
No. The first adventure starts by blinking the board's built-in light, and the lessons are written to the person building, not to a parent. 152 of the 206 lessons have video. Stuck? The AI guide inside the lesson gives hints, not answers. It is not a live person.
12 and up. No experience needed.
30 Days Lost in Space, then Pandora's Box, Neon Realm and Nebula Raiders. Cogsworth City fits in anywhere: as a warm-up, or as a breather between the big ones.
No. It's one mixed set of parts with no duplicates. Where two adventures share a part, it's in the box once, so the pile will look short if you check it against the five separate kit lists. It isn't. The checklist at craftingtable.com/crate lists every part by adventure, with pictures. If a part is genuinely missing, contact support and we'll send it.
No. The lessons for all five adventures, the sensor kit and the robotic arm are on CraftingTable and open with a free account. One payment for the crate, no subscription, and nothing expires.
A Windows or Mac computer with Chrome or Edge and an internet connection. A Chromebook works for the lessons and the HERO board, but the Python adventures' editor, Thonny, only runs on a Chromebook inside its Linux environment, which school-managed Chromebooks often switch off. Phones and tablets can't program the boards.
The computer above, and a small Phillips screwdriver for putting the robotic arm together.
It's a preorder. This batch sold out, so it ships about 30 days from the day you order, and we email tracking when it leaves the warehouse. You can cancel for a full refund any time before it ships.
Free US shipping. Canada, the UK and Australia are a flat $18.
Returns: 30 days from delivery, in the original packaging with all parts included, for a refund of the purchase price to the original payment method once the return arrives. Return postage is paid by the buyer.
Ships to the US, Canada, the UK and Australia: $12.35 flat shipping in the US, $18 to Canada, the UK and Australia. Send any physical order back within 30 days of delivery and we refund it when it arrives. Opened and used is fine; it just needs all of its parts. The customer pays return shipping, and the original shipping charge isn't refunded. Questions: support@craftingtable.com.
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