Official Arduino Starter Kit [K000007] – Beginner-Friendly Electronics Set with Board, Components & English Project Book

Arduino UNO – an excellent introduction
This is genuine Arduino item – extremely well packaged and presented – and as far as I can see by doing comparisons supersedes the original Arduino UNO starter kit. I bought this in preference to the clones which are significantly cheaper primarily because I felt that I ought to give myself the best chance of success – time to use the clones once I know what I am doing :-)Altho a fully qualified engineer I decided to work my way thro the projects in the book (an age thing-I never used to !!) as I have not played with these particular devices before – and I found the book was very useful – even though I knew the theory behind the ccts the practice of setting up etc as advised was very good and it shows both a cct diagram and a picture of the completed board. If you are a cct designer – you will probably find it a bit simple – but this is a starter kit. It also introduces you to the programming of these devices – if you have MicroSoft Basic” programming experience you should have no problem programming this device – the languages are not the same but there are obvious similarities. There are also many on line tutorials but I can already see some very useful ideas/projects that I can implement on my model railway.!!Some beginner comments (cognoscenti look away now!!) Check all the components before doing anything else – It is worth having a simple multimeter to check the resistors as some are 4 band and some 5 – get it wrong and you might blow the LEDs or the cct may not work – if you are knocking on a bit it is also worth having a magnifying glass to see some of the bands – particularly the yellows! – I actually labelled each section (not each resistor !!) on the resistor strip with the value to save time later.Note in doing setup the wooden mounting plate is now plasticI found it useful to put in a small (3mm deep) 4mm o.d. collar between the plastic mounting board and the Uno itself on each fixing bolt as the soldered connections on the back of the board can otherwise interfere with the level seating of the Uno on the board – not essential but…..it does allow you to tighten up mounting bolts without distorting the UNO PCB.Additional tools I found useful are tweezers for picking up components, and a pair of narrow (snipe) nose pliers – some of the holes in the breadboard are a wee bit tight and the component legs need to be pushed in quite firmly to seat properly – the pliers are for the fumbly-fingered among us – they allow you to grasp the leg very close to the hole so the leg doesn’t buckle as you push. Finally the LEDS – note once installed you cannot tell which is the long leg and which the short because unlike the diagrams the LED legs are straight – I put a kink in the long leg – if you do do this make sure you hold the leg adjacent to the LED and put the kink on the open leg side not the LED side – DO NOT bend or strain the leg at the point it joins the LED – you may well break the LED !!All in all I am very happy with my seriously discounted purchase ( 🙂 )and am already plotting which add-on shields I need.

every child should be given this; every parent should be given this; great way to understand electronics
bought as present for 86 year old with no previous experience of electronics or computer coding. I also bought the ‘Dummies Guide’. He loves it. he created a mother board then asked me to download software to his laptop (he is still learning how to use a laptop) that would allow him to use the standard codes to cause the light on the motherboard to start flashing. A look of pure joy on his face when it worked. You can use it to learn how electronics work or how computer code makes things happen in the real world. The instruction book is of very high quality and very, very easy to follow. I would encourage every parent to purchase this for their children and children to purchase it for their parents to keep their minds active. Highly, highly recommended.The instruction book is written for a number of laptop languages including Windows XP and Windows 8 but not Windows 10. Didn’t find it a problem.

Looks Like Fun
… I just need to get around to doing something with it.

Very good for people that want to learn electronics.
Well packaged and is very well put together. It is a bit on the expensive side but in fairness to the product itself, it is a very well-put-together package, with a very nicely put-together manual. For anyone young or old who has an interest in electronics, it would be a very good gift for or any person who is a natural tinkerer would love it.

This really is a nice kit to play with. The book is very well made and the projects are interesting and increase in difficulty as you progress. Great gift for anyone interested in tech!

La verdad que es muy bueno, es de muy buena calidad y me gustan las cosas que trae, pero no estaría mal incluir unos elementos más.