V4.1.2

[Danielle Just]

TheSparkFun Inventor's Kit (SIK) is a great way to get started with programming and hardware interaction with the Arduino programming language. The SIK includes everything you need to complete five overarching projects of 16 interconnected circuits that teach everything from blinking an LED to reading sensors. The culminating project is your very own autonomous robot! No previous programming or electronics experience is required to use this kit.

The full-color, spiral-bound SIK guidebook (included) contains step-by-step instructions with circuit diagrams and hookup tables for building each project and circuit with the included parts. Complete example code is provided, new concepts and components are explained at the point of use, and troubleshooting tips offer assistance if something goes wrong.

The kit does not require soldering and is recommended for beginners ages 10 and up looking for an Arduino starter kit. For the SIK version 4.1 series, we took an entirely different approach to teaching embedded electronics. In previous versions of the SIK, each circuit focused on introducing a new piece of technology. With SIK v4.1.2, components are introduced in the context of the circuit you are building, and each circuit builds upon the last, leading up to a project that incorporates all of the components and concepts introduced throughout the guide. With new parts and a new strategy, even if you've used the SIK before, you're in for a brand-new experience!

I've been giving this to 8-10 year old children and with hand holding through the first few circuits they are able to move through the sequence and complete each project on their own, even though they don't understand every word in the book or the code. They've all wanted to build more circuits at the end. Yay to this kit.

Very solid kit for teaching electronics but not fully kid proof. My son hooked up 1 wire wrong after a week n it fried his Red Board. Disappointed because now I'll need to buy another Red board.UPDATE: Sparkfun offered to help fix my son's red board, so I'm upgrading my ranking to 5 star due to the excellent customer service.

I need to extract a splunk app file (.spl) created in v4.1.2 onto a non splunk machine (linux workstation) to carry out some debugging of an app. I have tried renaming the app name.tar.gz from name.spl but I get the following error:

Ok, so the plot thickens. A fresh extract of the app from my 4.1.2 splunk server using ./splunk package app pci gives me the correct pci.spl file but when I try to re-import, it get the error: Failed to extract files from Application - Is it in tar.gz format?

If you just rename the .spl file to .tar it you should be able to un-tar it as normal. I'm not sure if this will work without renaming it, give that the file itself is still the same, I would think it should.

Checkout the full v4.1.2 ship list and GitHub project for the full details. Up next will either be v4.1.3 or v4.2 depending on how smoothly this release goes and how well we can keep up with reviewing and merging pull requests.

This is a small maintenance release for v4, and although it was supposed to be 4.1.1, we made a mistake for our PECL deployment so we had to increment the small version once more. v4.1.1 and v4.1.2 are identical.

Once again a huge thank you to all of our contributors! You guys have helped us a lot. You can help us even more by installing this version and testing it. If you find bugs, please report them in our Github Issues page. Alternatively you can always join us in our Discord server or our Forum.

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