Build Skills That Last a Lifetime

The Starter Kit includes a compact lab, essential parts, hands-on projects, tutorials, and live feedback everything you need to learn, experiment, and prepare for real-world tech challenges.

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EXPLORE THE STARTER KIT

The Gadget

The World’s Smallest Electronics Lab

A groundbreaking, pocket-sized device that replaces an oscilloscope, power supply, and function generator ($1,000+ of professional equipment). Beyond learning, the nLab stays by your side throughout your career, helping you diagnose, debug, and invent.

nLab Hardware
The Building Blocks

200+ Essential Electrical Components

Your LEGO set for electronics: resistors, capacitors, and other essentials you can mix and match to create real-world tech. Build, test, and explore how these puzzle pieces work together.

Scalable Projects
The Projects

12 Real-World Builds

Build real devices like heartbeat monitors, game controllers, and climate sensors — and level up with every project. Gamified challenges guide you while teaching the skills and theory behind each circuit.

Live Feedback
The Videos

Step-by-step guidance anywhere, anytime

Free YouTube tutorials taught by Angie, a robotics engineer, and Nick, a robotics professor at Northwestern. Learn at your own pace and see your creations come to life.

Proven & Trusted
The App

Learn with live feedback

The nLab app connects the gadget to your circuit and makes the invisible visible. Watch your circuits come to life and see exactly how they work as you build.

The App
Component
Quantity/Details
Outcome/Purpose
nLab
Oscilloscope, power supply, function generator, plus USB C cable
Measurement, power, and signal tools
Breadboard
Solderless prototyping board
Easy, mess-free, flexible circuit assembly
Wire Strippers
7 colors of solid core wire, 2 alligator clips (9 total)
Color-coded wiring for clarity
Resistors
10 each of 9 values (~90 total)
Control current and voltage
Capacitors
5 each of 6 values (~30 total)
Store and filter electrical energy
LEDs and Light Sensors
5 each of red, green, yellow, and blue LEDs, plus IR, and more (~30 total)
Visual signals and light detection
Common Parts
Buttons, transistors, diodes, potentiometers, mic, etc. (~30 total)
Switching, amplification, sensing
Integrated Circuits
Operational amplifiers and timers (7 total)
Signal amplification and timing
Category
Specification
Details
Dimensions
Kit size
9.5" x 5" x 2"
Weight
Total weight
2 lbs
Kit Contents
Main components
nLab, breadboard, USB-C cable
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Wiring tools
Wire stripper, wire bundle, alligator clips
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Basic components
Resistors, capacitors, diodes
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Light components
LEDs, photosensors
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Interactive components
Push buttons, transistors, speaker
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Sensors & controls
Potentiometers, microphone, thermistor
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Advanced ICs
Operational amplifiers, 555 timer
Power
Output voltage
+5V and -5V, 200mA
Power
Safety
Over-current protection
Input
Channels
4 channel
Input
Sample rate
4 MSPS
Input
Bandwidth
100 kHz bandwidth
Output
PWM channels
2 channel 0-5V PWM
Output
Waveform generation
2 channel sine and triangle

What People Are Saying

★★★★★

"I don't know how you pulled it off, but you've somehow made electrical engineering exciting!"

Stephanie H.

Zebra Robotics

★★★★★

"Every season, I see robotics teams tackling the steep learning curve of electronics and circuits—nLab turns that challenge into an opportunity to build these skills safely and confidently."

Al S.

Chief Robot Inspector, FIRST Robotics

★★★★★

"How did anyone ever learn electronics without the nLab?"

Michael H.

Student at Northwestern University

★★★★★

"I've taught electronics for 10 years. nLab is the breakthrough I've been waiting for."

Stephen H.

Bioengineering Instructor, University of Colorado Denver