Reviewer:
John Boxall
from Toowong, Queensland Australia
This was a really fun and stress-free kit to assemble... sometimes you just want something to while away a few hours and not think too much about - this is the perfect kit. Once operational, it does need a kick in the pants to reset the patter, I must get around to adding a 5 minute timer to the reset circuit to make it an automatic process. Otherwise, very happy, and if I had the spare money would buy nine of them and make a huuuuuuge game of life! Have documented my assembly at http://wp.me/pQmjR-wG
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My first electronics kit ever
April 28, 2010
Reviewer:
Steven Wood
from Stamford, CT United States
So I just spent the past 30 minutes assembling the Game of Life kit from Make magazine. I wanted to try my hand at making something that required soldering and electronic parts. The kit is very complete, but does not come with instructions. Instead, a web address is provided that contains a very clear and detailed procedure. The kit contains no extra parts. I found it extremely simple to put together, and had no difficulty at all. The final product, however, isn't incredibly exciting as the board is simply too small to be able to appreciate the rules of the Game of Life. There are only 16 LEDs and they blink very rapidly. It's too difficult to interpret what you are seeing as rules. I also wish the program would break itself out of steady states. If the game gets into a rule set that creates a flashing pattern, it won't reset without human interaction. This is very unfortunate, as it renders the board useless as desktop art.
Loads of blinky fun 
My first electronics kit ever 
