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Review on πŸ“ Raspberry Pi Ultimate Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi 4B 3B+ 400 - SunFounder: Python, C, Java, and Scratch Coding, Comprehensive Online Tutorials, 337 Items Including Camera Module, Speaker, I2C LCD, and 131 Projects by Glen Braudrick

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Good kit but hard to get past this hodgepodge of support, documentation, apps and website

**Update: Increased rating to 4 (out of 3)***The SunFounder Ultimate Starter Kit shows promise. The documentation website, if you can really find out which ones, looks well written (though not in native English). I was very impressed with their use of Read The Docs website tools: the documentation looks very professional. Also, one of the SunFounder kits (though maybe not this kit) included a very nicely printed brochure. However, the documentation is sparse in depth. For example, there are no explanations of code examples. Just copy the code and run it. There is also little explanation of how and why the circuits are built the way they are. Copy and paste again. Sometimes the reader is assumed to be a beginner, while other times a master's degree in electrical engineering is recommended. I've encountered an issue where the SunFounder create agent program isn't working. work on macOS Mojave - not on Windows 7 as I see it now. The tool would allow terminal access to the RPi from the documentation page: very cool. I contacted SunFounder who asked for my order number. **Update** I finally received a response after providing the Revain order number with apologies for losing touch with my message. The seller appears to offer tech support for Revain purchases. (The software supports Wind10, macOS Bir Sur, and RPi OS Buster and later, I'm told.) There is an odd statement in the documentation about ignoring messages when the program is considered a virus, when in fact these warnings are often false positives are . Luckily I didn't get any warning messages during the installation. This is now my second starter kit (documentation for the first was unreadable). It looks like these starter sets are equally uneven. I returned the SunFounder kit but I may buy it again if the other kits are worse.

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