A short year and three months after Nd suggested to me that I should acquire an arduino, mine arrived yesterday.
I went for the starter kit from Earthshine Design because, to be honest, I had no idea what kind of components I would be needing to get started – or even what to build!
The Earthshine kit comes with a nice PDF manual with step by step instructions to build a number of projects with the components supplied.
With that said – let’s get it out of the box 🙂
The arduino itself. Oooh shiny.
Enough LEDs to light my entire house
And enough resistors for each of them 🙂
And… the rest of the components – many of which I don’t yet understand exactly what they do. Includes a motor, potentiometer, temperature sensor, switches, transistors and so on.
The kit also includes a USB cable to connect the arduino to your computer, a breadboard and jumper wires for easy prototyping (without going to the trouble of soldering etc) and a power adaptor to power the arduino when it’s not plugged in to a computer.
And that’s not to mention the cool case to store your components in!
The kit costs £49.99, which from the research I did, seems to be a good price for such a starter set. With so many components supplied and tutorials for projects to build with them, it’s going to keep me busy for a while.
Kit available from http://www.earthshinedesign.co.uk/
Cool! This actually looks better than the starter kit I got which has annoying ridged wires, no motor, etc.
This certainly seems like one of the better ones, everything included actually has a purpose and example things to build with it
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Thanks for the excellent read.
Sounds like you had a good deal with your starter kit ! I also followed this article that companes some of the best starter kits out there: https://www.atrakeur.com/blog/diy/quel-kit-arduino-pour-debuter/ (in french, sorry guys)
Well done and congrats on your first Aruduino. I am not sure if you are aware but some Chinese wholesale websites sale arduino like knockoffs for dirt cheap and after using them for the last 3 months, I must say I am quite impressed. The value for money is really good.