This Arduino official starter kit walks you through the basics in a hands-on way, with creative projects you build by learning, thanks to a selection of the most common and useful electronic components with a selection of 15 projects that start from a low complexity, in order to let you learn the basic of electronic, to a major one, using components that let you control the physical world throw different kind of sensor.
Once you have mastered this knowledges, you will have a palette of software and circuits that you can use to create something beautiful, and make someone smile with what you invent, that is the reason why you will find more components than the required from the projects of the book. Then build it, hack it and share it. Because arduino is you!
What there is in the kit is reported in the list below, clicking int he name of the component you can download the datasheet of the parts, a document that describes the design and functionality of electrical components.
Here's a list of the projects in the kit:
- GET TO KNOW YOUR TOOLS - an introduction to the concepts you'll need to use this kit
- SPACESHIP INTERFACE - design to control panel for your startship
- LOVE-O-METER - measure how hot-blooded you are
- COLOR MIXING LAMP - produce any color with a lamp that uses light as an input
- MOOD CUE - clue people in to how you're doing
- LIGHT THEREMIN - create a musical instrument you play by waving your hands
- KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT - play music and make some noise with this keyboard
- DIGITAL HOURGLASS - a light-up hourglass that can stop you from working too much
- MOTORIZED PINWHEEL - a color wheel that will have your head spinning
- ZOETROPE - create a mechanical animation you can play forward or reverse
- CRYSTAL BALL - a mystical tour to answer all your tough question
- KNOCK LOCK - tap out the secret code to open the door
- TOUCHY-FEEL LAMP - a lamp that responds to your touch
- TWEAK THE ARDUINO LOGO - control your personal computer from your Arduino
- HACKING BUTTONS - create a master control for all your devices!
Documents
Shipping List
- Arduino Projects Book (170 pages) x1
- Arduino UNO board rev.3 x1
- USB cable x1
- Breadboard x1
- Easy-to-assemble wooden base x1
- 9v battery snap x1
- Solid core jumper wires x1
- Stranded jumper wires x2
- Photoresistor [VT90N2 LDR] x6
- Potentiometer 10kilohm x3
- Pushbuttons x10
- Temperature sensor [TMP36] x1
- Tilt sensor x1
- alphanumeric LCD (16x2 characters) x1
- LED (bright white) x1
- LED (RGB) x1
- LEDs (red) x8
- LEDs (green) x8
- LEDs (yellow) x8
- LEDs (blue) x3
- Small DC motor 6/9V x1
- Small servo motor x1
- Piezo capsule [PKM17EPP-4001-B0] x1
- H-bridge motor driver [L293D] x1
- Optocouplers [4N35] x2
- Transistor [BC547] x5
- Mosfet transistors [IRF520] x2
- Capacitors 100nF x5
- Capacitors 100uF x3
- Capacitor 100pF x5
- Diodes [1N4007] x5
- Transparent gels (red, green, blue) x3
- Male pins strip (40x1) x1
- Resistors 220 ohm x20
- Resistors 560 ohm x5
- Resistors 1 kilohm x5
- Resistors 4.7 kilohm x5
- Resistors 10 kilohm< x10
- Resistors 1 megohm x5
- Resistors 10 megohm x5
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