I purchased a Beginner Parts Kit from sparkfun. Can anyone identify it for me? (I went through all parts in the kit and could not seem to find anything that resembled this)
It looks like an LED to me.
ah, I believe you’re right. I took a trip down to radioshack and it looked like some overpriced high power led in the drawers. thanks 
It looks like a standard low-power one. Put a DVM on the diode setting across it and it should light up. The short lead is the cathode (negative).
ah yeah, 9v battery + 330 resistor displayed it for all it’s greeness
