The pentabug is a small microcontroller soldering project. It's especially suited for young hackers and beginners of all ages. Assembly requires no prior soldering skills and can be accomplished - with a little help for the tricky parts - by children old enough to savely hold a soldering iron (thats about 7 years and up).
At various events, e.g. [Datenspuren 2012 and 2013](http://datenspuren.de "Datenspuren 2012 and 2013"), Chaos Communication Congress 2012+2013, and many more, several hundred kits have been successfully assembled with just a handfull of bugs needing 'special treatment' for e.g. a controller mounted the wrong way. Have a look at our [slides in german](/c3d2/pentabug/raw/master/doc/201210_slides_datenspuren.pdf "slides form the Datenspuren 2012 talk") from the accompanying [presentation](http://www.datenspuren.de/2012/fahrplan/events/5074.de.html "pentabug talk announcement") or watch [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTBhXqNR6LY "Dresdner Piratencast Folge 14 - Datenspuren") of Frank and his sons beeing interviewed at our workshop table.
A complete walktrough of the assembly process is given in ["Pentabug - The Movie"](http://www.c3d2.de/news/video-pentabug-bauen.html "Pentabug - The Movie"), courtesy of [C3D2 - Chaos Computer Club Dresden](http://c3d2.de "C3D2 - Chaos Computer Club Dresden"). It would be amazing if Scott Manley could do an english version ;-).
Img. 1: A completely assembled V2 PCB with extension boards.
