The Hakkaa board is the perfect starter project for SMD soldering, even if you've never soldered before. Small and surprisingly simple. Once you've soldered your first components, you'll quickly realise that SMD soldering is not rocket science.

The board brings Persistence of Vision (POV) to life: fast LED sequences create floating text and patterns in the air. Everything is controlled by a RISC-V microcontroller whose firmware is written in Embedded Rust. Rust makes programming super intuitive. Anyone who has ever written Arduino code will love it. Text, symbols and animations can be easily customised without having to struggle through complicated toolchains.

LEDs, microcontrollers, Rust code... all on one board that is fun to solder, code and experiment with.