The mega kit is what got me back into coding after a couple decades away from it since graduating university

i got this kit about a year ago for $22 and i can honestly say it has been one of the best purchases i've made. it comes with all the tutorials and parts that you will need to get started. i would recommend this kit instead of the "project kits" since they are a single project and are more focused on simply making the user follow instructions, while this kit lets you learn all the basics and giving you the tools to make your own projects. of course, i outgrew the kit and soon started getting more parts for my different projects, but i still use everything in the kit and it served me extremely well.

As many times as you said "I've done a video using this exact part" or similar, it's almost as if they went through your entire video list and said "This is the perfect guy to review our kit".

Excellent kit, they did a very good job with that. I really like the screen printing on the pin headers both inside and outside of the pin headers. The starter guide is a beautiful touch. Great job to elegoo and excellent review

I was expecting to hear a Swiss accent when I saw that hand-pointer. Looks like a fun kit, I was wondering if it was worth getting one. Thanks for the review.

Another nice video and a reference back to some interesting videos you have done :-)

The pins labeled on the sides is very helpful.

I am in the market for just such a starter kit! This was a useful insight in what one might expect in such a thing!

Thank You

Nice review, a lot to play with. What would be nice if they pointed to the data sheets and helped you work the chips directly without a library? I think folk need to understand more of what’s underneath. I’ve had experience of car mechanics that changed the same part and charged for it twice because the computer said it was faulty. It was over reading the O2 levels, so must be faulty. What the computer did not know and the mechanic who was a part changer did not look for! Was an air leak in the pipes feeding the sensor. If you can read he data sheet and understand what’s telling you, when the program does not work you have a good starting point to fault find from. I like the pull out controller because as a beginner they can easily pull the chip and replace it if they takeout out an output. Much easier than learning SMD replacement at that point.

They should really name the kit "Pile of Arduino stuff"

I have the Elegoo Arduino board and use it often for prototyping. Good stuff! I also just assumed many of the other clone boards had silkscreened indicators on their sides as well. 😛

Am also impressed with the look of the Elegoo Uno. Am wondering if they use some kind of manual silk-screening to get the print on the sides of the ABS female headers. Did they space the headers on the upper right side from pin 7 to pin 8 at 0.2", instead of the annoying oddball 0.14" that "real" Uno's have? If it conforms to Uno, then I am gobsmacked that they had custom female header rows manufactured specifically for this product.

the download link for the contents of the CD no longer exists.

@pileofstuff

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the heads-up. It looks like they rearranged their web site at the end of October. The downloads appear to have been moved to here: www.elegoo.com/blogs/arduino-projects/elegoo-uno-r3-project-the-most-complete-starter-kit-tutorial

I'm sure I heard you say the data logger for your beer fridge? Somehow I'm not surprised

Are you sure you have your pins correct for the relay? I believe the coil is the outer two pins on the side with 3 pins, with the middle pin being the common (COM) pin for the high voltage.

@MikePerigo

3 жыл бұрын

According to the PDF in the datasheet directory you are correct. I guess the non standard accompanying refreshment must have affected his memory.

@JonathanWellskcender

3 жыл бұрын

@@MikePerigo I was wondering where the hoppy beverage was, but then got distracted by watching the video. Haha

@pileofstuff

3 жыл бұрын

You're probably right - I was going from memory of other relays I have used in the past.

@JonathanWellskcender

3 жыл бұрын

@@pileofstuff I wish my relays were like that. It seems much safer to keep high and low voltages as far away from each other as possible.

They sent one to me too, I did a very short video to combat the current Covid situation :)

Have you seen Kevin Darrah's recent videos? I wonder if they're genuine Atmel chips.

@pileofstuff

3 жыл бұрын

The issue Kevin is looking into seems to be with the more high-volume surface mount variants. I'd be surprised it the DIP version of the chip sells enough these days to be worth the effort to make fakes of.

I have to ask you, are you inspired by Andreas Speis with the "Pointificator" ? :D

@pileofstuff

3 жыл бұрын

I just happened to stumble across it one day when randomly browsing Thingiverse. I actually forgot that Andreas also had one.

Wowwwww 3:47

Thank you. No beer today? :-)

@pileofstuff

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly, not when I'm on-call for work.

No, I still ! not interested in Arduino, it's just play things, I tend to have an idea in my head for something and I design a circuit around it until it does what I want, example....auto chicken or green house door open/close using dark or light, things like that.

@pileofstuff

3 жыл бұрын

The Arduino ecosystem was invented specifically as an educational tool - to get people who don't have your training and experience *started* in programming and electronics. But even for us old-timers, it does provide a platform to quickly and easily toss together a simple prototype, or proof of concept.

@TheRainHarvester

3 жыл бұрын

I thought like you at first, but Arduino is cheaper than a bunch of discrete components to do anything interesting.

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