Arduino Starter Kit REVIEW

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[jaybk]

I think one of the major problems with a lot of guides/tutorials on IOT stuff/maker videos is that people show you how to complete a project but never explain, how/why it works. So then you can never really transfer some of that knowledge to other projects on different boards...

For example they will tell you what pins you need to solder/where to plug pins in on your breadboard, to a certain sensor but it's never really explained why you need to use those certain ones, and how it works.

I've been messing around with Arduino's, Pi's and other smaller boards like Adafruit's Feather line for almost a year now, and most of the guides I've come across just tell me how to complete the specific project, the scope of the tutorials are very limited and focused on only, like you said "Making it work", not really too much detail into how/why it works. This has led me to have to do A TON of research on my own, which often times leaves me more confused than when I was in the first place.

Don't get me wrong there are a ton of good guides/tutorials out there, but a majority of them are just getting something specific to work, and not really going any further than that. If I didn't have a strong desire to constantly learn new things about networking, programming, security, hardware, etc ; I would've probably already given up because nobody wants to just follow other peoples guides, they want to build their OWN projects and show other people: "This is what I made, this is how it functions, this is why it works like that, and this is what you can do to achieve the same end result".
/endrant

[MoonJumpMania]

In case you didn't know what a man page is, it's the Unix term for command manuals, it explains how a specific command works and what you can do with it.

[rbaleksandar]

Great video. Especially the beginning and the discussion "Why buy a kit instead of buying everything separately?" is something that more people should hear, understand and apply.

[Toter]

Robot car? That's big boy Legos! Definitely interested.

[sethrich]

It sounds like this is more of a familiarization than a textbook. Not necessarily a bad thing. Just that this will get you comfortable with what the system can do, but will require more technical training for custom applications and optimization at a systems integration level.

[anwarigroup]

Keep it up with arduino, thats cool side of electronics

[MrPanzerDragoon]

Love the video. I am going to buy a starter kit. I know NOTHING about electronics and circuitry, so this is perfect.

By the way, I have built my own gaming PC back in 2014, so I know to avoid buying off the shelf prebuilt PCs. I can put together my own.

A starter kit. It's for starters! I say do what makes you feel comfortable. Ignore the nay sayers out there!

[Impulse_Photography]

I think, for best learning results, you should learn from an electronics course and use this as an accompany to that learning.
Here you can do the project, and there you learn the reasons behind that.
I want to begin looking into ARM projects also - I'll probably buy both the Arduino & STM32

[dtexan]

Still debating which starter kit to buy. I have read that there are a lot of typos, or wrong info in that book. It IS a LOT more money for the original arduino starter kit, than an after market one. But I do see some brands that have 4 or more stars from customers.

[GertjanBrouwer]

You can connect the - & + on both sides so you can put components in the middle

[glennoltman]

Thing that you need to remember that the Arduino name is a group of
boards that can be program with the Arduino IDE. The think that is
neat is that the Arduino IDE is really a Compile for all of
the different micro processor that are connected with the arduino
name.

[Moist_yet_Crispy]

True story. I bought a budget Arduino kit and it took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out it was the hardware that wasn't working correctly.

[codykonior]

I’m new to your videos but I know exactly what you mean about community gatekeeping - buying kits saves a tonne of time and time is precious.

[jonathanwarner]

The best Arduino for breadboarding is the Arduino Nano - if it has the header pins it plugs straight into the breadboard - no trailing jumper wires. You can get them for just a few dollars each on ebay. Where the Uno excels is for flashing individual AVR chips.

[Gandoff]

I've been thinking about getting an arduino. I know kids would love it! But really, I'm a 58 year old IT analyst. Could be fun. :-) I might could use this in some applications at work. Hum. Cool.

[chris-hayes]

I love this kit, was a great introduction to electrical engineering. the Arduino IDE using spaces instead of tabs drove me nuts though haha

[lilpp]

nice idear! I'm glad you started doing tutorials again

[FEYSCONTROL]

First eleven minutes can be skipped...

[Jhonatan]

A way to use the potentiometer better in the breadboard is soldering some wires to the pins of the potentiometer and then use the wires to connect to the breadboard.

[dcavanaugh]

So glad to see you're doing classes again!