The 25-week program · V2
25 real builds, one a week, with a teacher built in.
Week 1 is a button and a light, wired by hand. Press it, and it comes on. From there: keypads, motors, lights that mix any color, a little screen that talks back, all the way to Week 25, which unlocks with the tap of a card. The TechToast app walks the builder through every step, whether it's your kid, your grandkid, or you. The box brings the 38 real parts. The screen brings the teacher. Nothing else to buy, ever.
Real screenshots from the TechToast app. Exactly what the builder sees inside.
$199 ONE-TIME · ~$8/WEEK
Lifetime access. App included. No subscription. Ever.
10,000+ kits shipped · free worldwide shipping · 30-day money-back
Who it's for
Built for whoever's doing the building.
- A parent who wants one thing that actually holds a kid for 25 weeks, not an afternoon.
- A homeschool family that wants hands-on making, with the teaching built in.
- A grandparent who wants something real to build together, no experience needed on either side of the table.
- An adult or retiree who always wanted to learn real electronics, starting from zero.
Different builders, same box, and the box is only a fraction of it.
What you're getting
A box of real parts. And the teacher that comes with it.
One honest thing before you order: this is not a finished gadget. The photos on this page show many different builds, and every one of them comes out of the same box: the same core parts, pulled apart and rebuilt into a new setup week after week. What ships is a box of 38 real parts, plus the TechToast app, a step-by-step teacher on a screen. Think LEGO: you buy the bricks and the joy of building, not the finished castle, except everything built here really works. The box brings the parts. The screen brings the teacher.
38 real parts, at your door
The TechToast app, mid-lesson
How a week works
Wire it up. Snap the blocks. Watch it run. Learn why.
Every week, one new build, same four moves. Most people assume the hard part is the wiring. It isn't. Watch:
Real parts, real wires, a picture to copy. Go slowly and match where each wire goes. That's the whole job. A wire in the wrong spot never breaks anything; the light just stays dark until it's moved.
Then the builder tells it what to do, with on-screen blocks that click together into a program. If the button is pressed, turn the light on. That's a real program, and a seven-year-old can read it.
Press Upload. The program leaves the screen, travels down the cable, and runs on the table.
Then the part most kits skip. The builder just made something real work, and they're proud of it. Pride makes a person curious about why it worked, and that exact moment, while the light is still on, is when the app explains the why, then dares them one step further. That's the method: the learning sneaks in right behind the pride. Here's what a Week 6 challenge asks:
YOUR NEXT CHALLENGE
Now make yellow.
No yellow wire exists. You mix it: red and green, both all the way up. Every screen you've ever looked at makes its colors this exact way.
Meet the teacher
You don't have to know any of this. The app does.
Every wire. Every block. Every press of the button. The TechToast app sits beside the work and says exactly what's next, right in the browser, nothing to install. These are real screens:
Week 1 holds your hand. The whole way.
Thirteen small steps, one at a time, starting with making your button. The one drawer you need glows, a little hand points, and if you stall, two buttons wait: Show me and Place it for me. Nobody has to arrive knowing anything.
The lesson never leaves your side.
Numbered steps and photos sit right beside the blocks. One screen, everything in view. And the drawer says it plainly: only this week's blocks are in here.
It shows you the real code you made.
One tap shows the real code your blocks just wrote, with notes in plain words, like "turn the board's little light on." Nobody has to touch it; it's a door the teacher leaves open.
Press Upload. Watch it wake up.
The app has you read the program out loud, "if the button is pressed, turn the light on", then one press sends it down the cable, and the light on the table comes on because you told it to.
And when something won't light up?
Then you've reached the most useful part of the week. Message our engineers, real people, and they'll walk you through it, step by step, until it works. Getting stuck and then unstuck is where the learning compounds: every found wire makes the next problem smaller. Nobody builds 25 weeks without hitting a wall, and nobody has to stare at one alone.
Included with the kit. For life.
Every lesson, every build, the whole teacher, yours with the box, forever.
THE TECHTOAST APP · INCLUDED WITH EVERY KIT
That's the screen's half of the purchase. The other half shows up at your door.
What's in the box
What actually shows up at your door.
- An Arduino Uno R3 + its cable: the little brain behind all 25 builds, the same gear engineers start on
- A breadboard: the board everything clicks into, plus every wire the builds need
- Lights to switch on, buttons to press, a motor that moves, parts that beep and sing
- An LCD screen: for the builds that start talking back, plus a keypad and the tap-a-card reader, with its own card and tag
- Sensors for light, sound, water, and temperature: the parts that let builds react on their own, plus everything else. 38 real parts in all
- The TechToast app: the teacher that turns those parts into 25 working builds, yours for life
See the full parts list
All 38, the same list printed inside the box lid:
- Arduino Uno R3
- USB cable
- Breadboard
- LCD screen
- 4×4 button matrix (the keypad)
- RFID module (the tap-a-card reader)
- RGB module (the any-color light)
- 5mm red LEDs
- 5mm green LEDs
- 5mm yellow LEDs
- Photoresistors (the light sensors)
- Sound sensor
- Water level sensor
- DHT11 module (temperature + humidity)
- LM35 temperature sensor
- Tilt switch
- Push buttons
- Joystick module
- 10K potentiometer (the dial)
- Remote control
- IR receiver (for the remote)
- Active buzzer
- Passive buzzer
- 9g servo
- Stepper motor
- Relay module
- 4-digit 7-segment display
- 1-digit 7-segment display
- 8×8 LED dot matrix
- RTC module (a real-time clock)
- 74HC595 chip
- 220Ω resistors
- 1K resistors
- 10K resistors
- Jumper wires (male to male)
- Jumper wires (male to female)
- Battery connector
- Header pins (2.54mm)
The build arc
Week 1 is a light. Every week between stacks one new skill on the last. Week 25 pulls it all together.
One project a week, paced so it never gets too hard too fast. These are the actual builds, on our actual table:
A light you switch on yourself. That's the hook.
A whole keypad, sixteen keys, and a build that answers them: this key lights the light, that key plays a note.
The capstone: everything from the 24 weeks before, in one build. Tap a card, the little screen lights up, it unlocks. That's not a project anymore. That's proof.
From one button to all of it.
Week 1 is a button and a light, one wide-eyed first sitting. Week 25 is everything at once: tap the card, the little screen says granted, the latch swings open, the light turns green, a happy beep. Five parts working together because the builder told them how.
Same table. Same hands. Twenty-five weeks apart.
That's not a bigger project. That's a different builder.
And when Week 25 is done, the app prints a certificate of completion with the builder's name on it. All 25 weeks, finished. Proof you can frame.
Go ahead, check
What 10,000+ kits add up to.
10,000+
Kits shipped worldwide
38
Real parts, the kind engineers start on
25
Weeks, one new build every week
6 to 80+
The ages that have finished it
For life
Real engineers, one message away
The Week-25 moment: tap the card, watch it answer.
Mid-build, no help needed.
Nobody asked them to be here.
The moment it works.
Who's behind this
TechToast was built by someone who taught himself electronics and coding as an eight-year-old kid. This kit is exactly what he wishes he'd had on that journey: the same real parts, with the teacher already inside. And when a build won't light up, real engineers answer your message. Not a script, not a bot. For life, with every kit.
"Just fantastic - my 9 year old is loving the intro to circuits and programming. Way better than I thought it would be"
- Caroline O.
Verified buyer
"Interesting for my teenaged grandson as it was a quick process to complete tasks (as long as he concentrated!) but also challenging. He learned a lot about electronics and the names and functions of all the components by actually using them. Always the best way to learn. üòä"
- Jackie M., Australia
Verified buyer
"I bought this for a friends 16 years old. I'm an electrical engineer… He absolutely loves it. He is on week 10 after 2 weeks!"
- Gordon A., New Zealand
Verified buyer
"Online support is excellent!! I'm enjoying building the circuits."
- Lyle R., United States
Verified buyer
"My 12 year old is loving it. Did the first 4 lessons in one day this weekend"
- Lauren B., United States
Verified buyer
"My grandson absolutely loves it he was so excited to get going. He has started working on the breadboard already and can't wait for the new lessons each week."
- Will M., Canada
Verified buyer
The real product
What 25 finished builds leave behind.
Not the gadgets. Those get taken apart and rebuilt into the next thing. What the 25 weeks are really building is a brain: one wired for invention, critical thinking, and solving problems one step at a time. Here's what that looks like:
- Being stuck stops feeling like failing. A builder who has found the one loose wire twenty times learns what stuck usually means: close. One found wire from working.
- Technology stops being magic. Lights, keypads, little screens, the card reader. A builder who has made all of it work starts seeing everyday devices as things they understand. The wondering flips, from "how does that work?" to "what do we build next?"
- Consuming turns into making. Every gadget in the house, somebody else built. Here, the button that gets pressed is the one the builder put there.
- "Can you fix it?" becomes "Can I open it?" Someone who has made 25 things work stops treating broken as final, and starts looking for the loose wire instead of handing it over.
Here's the shape of it, one ordinary night. The bedroom light is on, the bed is warm, and nobody wants to get up. Most people live with it, or order a gadget for it. A builder lies there listing the parts it would take: a button by the pillow, a wire to the light, one small program. That reflex, seeing a fix where everyone else sees a fact of life, is the real product. It can grow into a hobby. More than one hobby like it has grown into a business.
We can't promise which of those lands in your house. Nobody honest can. The 30 days are the bet.
The money part
What $199 actually buys.
Not a box of parts. This is closer to signing up for guitar lessons, and the guitar comes included: what you're really buying is the teaching, 25 weeks of it, sitting beside the builder from the first wire to the last. It starts paying off in the first sitting, when the first light comes on, and the app carries the teaching the whole way, so nobody at home has to. 10,000+ kits are already out in the world, and 30 days of money-back stands behind this one. At the end of it: a builder who knows they can make technology work. The box brings the parts; the screen brings the teacher. One payment buys all of it:
- The 38-part build kit, everything all 25 builds need
- The TechToast app, all 25 weeks of step-by-step lessons
- Lifetime access, yours for good, no subscription, ever
- Lifetime support from real engineers, for the nights something won't light up
- Free worldwide shipping
- 30-day money-back guarantee
One payment: $199 ~$8/WEEK ACROSS THE COURSE
Before you add to cart
Questions we get asked most
What age is it for?
It's made for ages eight and up, with no upper limit: adults into their 80s have finished it. Younger builders have finished it too, with someone alongside for the first weeks.
Is it hard? Do we need to solder?
No soldering: nothing hot, nothing sharp, no tools. Every part pushes in by hand and pulls straight back out, so nothing breaks from a mistake, and the same parts rebuild into project after project, forever. The app goes one small step at a time, with pictures. Week 1 is a single button and a light, finished in a first sitting.
How much do parents have to do?
Less than you think. Sitting in on Week 1 is nice; after that the app runs the show, and most parents' whole job is being the audience. When a build stalls, the answers come from our engineers, not from you.
Do we have to keep up with a weekly pace?
No. It's laid out as 25 weeks, but there's no schedule behind it: no start dates, no weekly calls, nothing that expires. Build faster, build slower, build at any hour of any day, or save it for the holidays. It's called a 25-week kit because most people put in about one to two hours a week, not because anyone's keeping count.
What do we need at home?
Any computer with the free Chrome or Edge browser: Windows, Mac, and Chromebook all work. Nothing to install. The lessons and building work anywhere; sending a program to the board is the part that needs the computer and the cable.
Is the app extra? Is there a subscription?
No and no. The TechToast app comes with the Learn & Build Kit V2: every lesson, all 25 weeks, lifetime access. There is no subscription, no renewal, and nothing to cancel, ever.
What exactly do we get for $199?
Everything, once: the box of real parts, all 38, plus the TechToast app with the full 25 weeks of step-by-step lessons, lifetime access, free worldwide shipping, and real engineers a message away for life. Finish all 25 weeks and the app prints a certificate with the builder's name on it. About $8 a week across the course. And it makes you part of the TechToast family: hit any snag with this kit, ever, and you can message the team and get a real answer. What you're really paying for is the shot at 25 finished builds, and a builder who knows for certain they can make things work.
What if it doesn't land with my kid?
You've got 30 days and a full money-back guarantee. Give it a few real weekends or evenings; if nobody's reaching for it, email us within the 30 days and get every cent back.
30-day money-back
The worst case is a refund.
Give it a few real weekends or evenings in your house. If nobody's reaching for it on their own, email us within 30 days for a full refund: no forms, no lecture, no hard feelings. Either it lands, or your money comes back. We're comfortable with that bet.
One last thing
Builders aren't born. Somebody lights the spark.
We've shipped 10,000+ kits worldwide, and the thing we hear back most isn't about the parts at all. It's the moment somebody gets pulled over to the table: "Come see what I made." Eight years old or eighty, that sentence sounds exactly the same. That's the real product. The rest is parts.
Maybe you're wondering if this ends up like every other kit: exciting for one afternoon, abandoned by week two. That's the right question to ask, and we won't answer it with promises. We'll answer it with the bet: thirty days, money back, if the box goes quiet, if week two never comes. There's one part we can't put in the box, though. The spark has to be handed over. That part is yours.