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Review on Freenove Ultimate Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi: 561-Page Tutorials, Python C Java Scratch Coding, 223 Items, 72 Projects, Solderless Breadboard by Michael Lightfoot

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Jumper Wires on Breadboard -- Resolved by Freenove Customer Service

I spent many hours troubleshooting and costing to replace the IC before realizing that most of the short black jumper wires were open, apparently bad crimped contacts. UPDATE 07/11/2018: Freenove contacted me immediately and apologized for the bad jumpers. They also refunded me for some extra spare chips I bought while trying to fix a bad jumper problem (I thought the chip was bad but in fact some of my chip bases were open). Anyway, despite the bad cables, I've had a lot of fun plugging various circuits and devices into the Raspberry Pi 3. The online documentation has a lot of grammatical and typo errors, but it's good enough for me to follow and force the circuits to follow and programs work fine. The Python and C programs are well documented and easy to use.

Pros
  • Pleasant
Cons
  • Not sure