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How it works

From discarded electronics to hands-on learning.

Every ReSpark kit follows the same six steps. Only suitable components make it through, and they’re combined with selected new parts where that’s the safer or more reliable choice.

  1. A cardboard box holding discarded electronics: a remote, a broken toy car and a solar garden light

    1Step one

    Collect

    Suitable discarded electronics are sourced.

    • Broken toys, old devices and garden solar lights are the kind of items that can hold useful parts.
  2. A magnifying glass over a salvaged DC motor, beside a checklist

    2Step two

    Inspect

    Components are checked for visible damage.

    • Parts that are cracked, corroded or otherwise damaged go no further.
  3. A multimeter testing an LED, which glows

    3Step three

    Test

    Potentially reusable components are tested.

    • Only components that work as expected are considered for a kit.
  4. A tray of sorted good parts beside a bin of unsuitable scrap marked for e-waste handling

    4Step four

    Sort

    Safe and suitable components are separated.

    • Unsuitable material is set aside for appropriate e-waste channels.
    • Salvaged battery cells are never included in kits.
  5. An open ReSpark kit box with a breadboard, motor, wheels, LEDs and wire, next to a bag of new parts

    5Step five

    Build

    Components are combined with selected new parts to create STEM kits.

    • New parts are used where they’re inexpensive, safety-critical, hard to recover reliably or unsuitable for reuse, such as breadboards, resistors and ICs.
  6. A breadboard with a glowing LED beside a notebook showing a hand-drawn circuit

    6Step six

    Learn

    Students build projects and learn through practical experimentation.

    • Circuits, motors, sensors and renewable-energy concepts, learned by doing.

Unsuitable e-waste is not placed into ReSpark kits and should be handled through appropriate e-waste channels.

Recovered + new

Honest about what’s inside.

ReSpark combines suitable recovered components with selected new components to create affordable, safe and reliable STEM kits.

Every product page lists recovered and new components separately, so you always know what you’re getting.

See it in a kit

Each kit page shows exactly which parts are recovered and which are new.

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