Anyone got a starter kit they have used and liked, not music related per se

[Locrian99]

Hey looking for STEM projects to do with my son, was thinking this arduino would be cool. As well I’d learn too. Anyone bought one the many starter kits and liked it? Or a suggestion for getting started.

 

[Erik S]

I bought an arduino starter kit like 12 years ago. Haven’t touched it!

I haven’t looked at any of that stuff in a while bit I remember adafruit.com having some cool approachable looking projects.

 

[derevaun]

The Elegoo Uno R3 Super Starter Kit (words variously ordered) is pretty popular, among the similar $40ish kits.

 

[vigilante398]

I'm a strong Arduino advocate, that thing rocks. Very easy point of entry into embedded systems and provides a great balance between simplicity and capability. The interface is easy enough to use that you can learn to write a simple program in under an hour, and in college I wrote a real-time operating system that ran on an Arduino*.

If I'm trying a new microcontroller and I can't use the Arduino IDE, that's a dealbreaker for me.

*it was hard and I did not enjoy it

 

[giovanni]

The adafruit stuff is really good. I built one of their kits and it was very fun and easy to program. Their stuff can use the Arduino IDE but they also have a Python version which is even easier to use (but performance is not as good of course).

 

[Harry Klippton]

Tayda has loads of Arduino stuff. I got several boards from them a few years ago while chasing a stupid idea and then never did anything with them