Review on 🔌 ELEGOO UNO Project Super Starter Kit with Tutorial and UNO R3 - Compatible with Arduino IDE by Rene Putman

Bought this kit on Cyber Monday for about $7 off the current list price. Even though this Chinese Arduino clone vendor charges such a reduced fee for this package, the buyer gets a heck of a lot of cool components here. I would definitely pay full price for this set now that I've looked at it for a few hours. I am very happy to go through all the tutorials published by Elegoo for this set. They are concise and cover well the electrical principles behind the included components. I'm only omitting the asterisk because it can improve the documentation for installing and configuring the Arduino IDE on the Mac OS platform. Instead, they go into detail about Windows features and then assume Mac settings will be similar. It's a euphemism for "You'll have to find that out for yourself." Luckily, setting up the Arduino IDE on my PowerBook was easy and I had no problems. UPDATE: I would also like to mention the advantage of using Arduino over Raspberry Pi or BeagleBoard (I have many of those). For the novice mechanic, Arduino reduces the complexity of getting your program into the device and doing things. Raspberry Pi etc are very good for high power applications but they are overkill for projects you might put together with parts like this. What I'm trying to say is that the Arduino platform is a great place to start and offers low power requirements (can be battery powered). All parts in this kit are fully compatible with Raspberry Pi and BeagleBoard, so you can use them if you decide to use other platforms. to enjoy the collection of details and rate tutorials. The Arduino UNO is a very powerful microprocessor board, but it offers a limited number of input/output pins. As the tutorial moves to implementations that surpass built-in ports, they introduce this other chip that can accept commands and pass signals to additional external pins. This allows the output to be routed to multiple devices (LEDs, stepper motors, etc.) beyond what would be available with only built-in outputs. Dealing with code around this limitation is a fun multi-dimensional puzzle. For my non-experimental projects, I chose the Arduino Mega board, which offers many more extra pins than the UNO. The model sold by Elegoo on Revain is only about $14, so the price is very attractive to reduce the complexity of my logic control code.