Review on 🔌 Arduino Official Starter Kit Deluxe Bundle with Make: Getting Started 3rd Edition Book - Open Source Electronics Prototyping Platform by Hunter Siemon

Now that I've done my first and third projects, they really should have swapped their graphic designer for some clarity advice from a teacher. The first and most annoying thing is that her VERY FIRST DIAGRAM is incomplete. There are so many descriptions that are incomplete in favor of really neat graphics. Why this was such a big problem is that I firmly taped the layout to the wrong side to keep track of their visual layouts (which I wish were MUCH bigger and easier to see/read), but this would they be labeled as it says in the instructions? Of course, if you accidentally make a mistake, you can just take it off and turn it the other way. For this money you buy nice boxes that don't help you to keep things tidy. I consider myself to have a learning disability, but sometimes I can get around it with sheer enthusiasm, but it would really take a lot longer if I checked her book for errors over and over again for each example. I spent half an hour making sure I put all the little metal pieces back into the breadboard after tearing it apart. . In the first example, I had to find (and learn how to use one separately) a multimeter (shown but not explained or included) because I had no idea what tiny colored resistor I was using, they aren't labeled and don't equal what is shown in the instructions. With this set, it's really not easy to distinguish dark red color -> dark red color -> black -> black -> dark red color (5-way 220 ohm resistor) from dark red color -> black -> black -> dark - reddish color -> dark red color (because it is a 1 kΩ resistor). There are many examples of important things that are overlooked: - Each project has an ingredient list but forgets to include wires (which may also be a different color than what your kit actually contains) and also no quantities. - The color mixing lamp involves "applying" the gels to the phototransistor. I'm just saying that they don't even try to refer to "Fig. 2". Because you need tape, dexterity and a lot of patience. Should I keep all these little parts in an ESD plastic thing? Do I need to pay more attention to some details than others? Check out all my adventures in the photos, around to see what I mean. wait, it's him. Or is it a hole. At least I turned on the light. I wanted a clear overview, maybe even why the Arduinos came about in the first place. I didn't come across any of this until I... started reading the introduction to "Sams Teach Yourself Arduino Programming in 24 hours" which I haven't finished yet so I can still say if it helps me understand why a parallel switch might be useful... in comparison to code understanding, where I change things beyond copying and pasting lines of code until something "works". Actually not worth $150. Someone should pay me to update their book.