ELEGOO UNO R3 Project Most Complete Starter Kit with Tutorial Compatible with Arduino IDE (200+ Components)

Amazon_Customer United States

Amazing Value and a Ton of Fun!

I was looking for an Arduino clone starter kit and considered many options. I’m an Electrical Engineer with 15+ years experience designing, manufacturing and testing space flight electrical hardware for satellites. I have a very high standard for quality and was hesitant to purchase this kit due to its low price and my fears that it would be total junk. However, I figured the price was so darn low that even if it turned out to be junk, it wouldn’t be a huge waste. Wow, am I glad I bought this! First, the set arrives in a very useful organizer. I found this to be a really nice feature and helps save time when searching for parts to build each different project. Upon initial inspection, the quality of each component appeared very acceptable. Definitely low-quality parts — as you’d rightfully expect at this price point — but certainly no where near “junk” quality. By low-quality, I’m referring to mostly the solder quality, but also the individual piece-parts used in the assemblies are your standard Chinese low-grade parts. Some soldered parts were installed misaligned and some PCB assemblies still had visible contamination on them from inadequate washing. Again, this is all to be expected at this price point and so far, I was very pleased. The real test is if everything worked... I completed all the tutorials and found the instructions very easy to follow. A CD is included in the kit, which supposedly contains all the required software, tutorials and datasheets. My laptop doesn’t have a CD ROM drive so I downloaded everything on the Elegoo website. That’s probably the best option anyway — that way, you know you are using the latest versions of everything. The datasheets were a nice-to-have, although some of them were not as detailed as they should be. Still useful nonetheless. The tutorial manual was clearly written — it’s definitely not poorly translated Chinese-to-English like I expected. It’s entirely written in clear English. In some places, I wish it did a better job explaining the code and syntax, but honestly, that’s something Google can handle. Every tutorial was completed easily and I discovered only one technical mistake: the tutorial on DC motor control omitted a ground jumper between the Arduino board and the breadboard/motor controller board. Consequently, the control signal logic levels were not correctly referenced to the same ground potential on both boards. The motor did not respond correctly at first but some quick troubleshooting lead me to add the ground connection and everything worked flawlessly after that. I’ve tested every component in the kit now and everything works as intended. I’m a little bit surprised at this but very, VERY happy. This kit has been a ton of fun to play with. It’s perfect for anyone wanting to get started with Arduinos. It has so many different cool components that this will keep you entertained and get your creative juices flowing. I highly recommend it!

JustAGuy United States

Amazing Kit for Learning Arduino

I'm writing this as someone who has never used an Arduino before and this kit contains everything a person new to Arduino could ever ask for! The plethora of sensors and modules kept me entertained ever since I've received my kit and I highly recommend this to anyone ambitious enough to learn something new. Note I say "ambitious" since the provided lessons are more or less just demos to what's in the kit and proper research is required for a deeper understanding of what exactly your doing. If you really want to learn how to use the Arduino and its IDE there are lots of videos and websites that likely already have a solution to whatever issues or questions you may have. There were however minor issues with the kit that I can easily overlook, but I thought I should still point them out: - The kit comes with a relay that isn't attached to a PCB and because of that it doesn't exactly fit on the bread board. This wouldn't have been a huge issue since I thought I could use the wires with female headers, but the pins on the relay are too short and thin for a secure connection. However, what I found entertaining was that the lessons provided recommended that I bend one of the pins of the relay in order to use it with the breadboard. I did exactly that and the relay did fit on the breadboard, but it now also has a crooked pin. - This is most likely a issue with my package, but the case came with a small crack on on of the corners of the lid. This might be due to shipping, but none of the components seemed to be damaged so I guess the case did its job protecting the items. - The included jumper wires aren't the best quality and as when I'm writing this review I've broken the tips of 3 wires already. However they do their job of being wires just fine and I can always get replacements or just use actual wires with the ends striped off. - The included 9V battery actually contains lead which is actually considered hazardous waste so it'll be inconvenient when I need to properly dispose of it. Overall this is a great kit to start learning and experimenting with an Arduino and the amount of things you get is definitely worth the price. If Elegoo does decide to refresh this kit I would recommend replacing the included disk with something such as a USB flash drive since most modern computers no longer come with a DVD drive (Note: the lessons, documentation, and libraries for this kit is available for download on Elegoo's website which is what I used).

Amazon Customer United States

Good product, learning curve

Its a lil bit of headache and a Lil bit of a learning curve. Especially because its its a clone of an arduino board. So you have to learn how to match arduino program with the clone for example "elegoo uno board = arduino uno board".Lil things you have to test out, but it's a cool Lil board to learn computer programming and making cool stuff. But if your a beginner. I advise to get the book by Simon monk " programming arduino, getting started with sketches ", this book teaches you the basics and language of computer c++ programming. And also gives you Lil task to accomplish and when you feel comfortable you can make Lil changes. And your world will open up. And each mistake is an accomplishment waiting to be learned. And I also had a problem with downloading the sketches from the files for the reason that i have windows11, so my problem was that when i went to downloadthe sketch. The media player would open. But the sketches are not media its an inf file. So when you click on the file the mediaplayer will open and on the side of the screen there will be a section where it would say properties. You have to change the mediaplayer into a drive that could read files. Because the mediaplayer is trying to read the file as if was a video......"word of advice! Make a copy of the files don't rely on just one. Just in case you mess up on 1 file you can go back and see what you have to correct ".

Scan14 United States

FUN FOR THE BRAIN

Lotta good stuff to mess with! I’m 80 so I’m not smart about it but I like to “mess” with it to see what I can do. (Ain’t gonna go in no “home” until my last brain cell is gone.) And, domestically, it pretty much keeps me out of trouble, too. Woulda liked a few more written instructions with the kit. But, probably, that’s just me. (The 80-year old thing, remember?) But Amazon to the rescue. There’s some good written instructional offerings available. Okay, if you see an 80 year old waving an Oregon State Beaver flag on the moon, you’ll know I wrote the program to put me in the correct orbit!