Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Quick look: The Ultimate Arduino Kit Deal”.
Welcome to make workshop, where we check out tools, toys and tech built for makers today, we’re going to look at the ultimate kit for learning the arduino. What we have here is the ultimate make arduino kit now before we get started, if you’ve never heard of an arduino, probably wonder what the heck that is, we put out a video all the way back in 2007, describing what an arduino is and why you’d want To use it i’ll, throw a card up there and a link down below, so you can find that video some of the stuff’s a little bit dated, obviously because it’s like 13 years old now, but it’s still a pretty fun video. That explains what the arduino is. Now this kit helps you learn how to use it. It’S got a bunch of components and parts that you can use to build some basic projects and get your feet wet.
We sell this kit in our store. It’S makershed.com. We’Ve covered a lot of stuff that other people make and sell and stuff like that, and we thought it’d be fun to show off a little bit of the stuff you could buy from us also. So this is the ultimate arduino kit it retails at about 120 dollars.
But right now we’re running a special where, if you put in a special code again find that link below you can get a series of educational books valued at another hundred dollars as well. To teach you everything you would ever need to know about working with arduino, let’s look inside and see what we’ve got all right. Okay, so we have, of course, the arduino uno, a little box for your bits and bobs some wires for your prototyping board flex. Sensors resistors a little knobby rio, stat kind of dilemma, bob another proto board and some headers.
This looks like a piezo speaker, a display, some heat shrink and another proto board. If you wanted to make something a little more permanent, you could solder your parts to that. We’Ve got a selection of capacitors here, a battery case, two servos, some buttons switches, little dc motors, a vibrator motor, some leds – and this is so you can make kind of another permanent circuit that you could just plug on the top.
We call these shields. Let’S take a peek at the arduino itself. Now you should go watch that older video, but here it is. This – is an arduino you’re going to plug in usb here to your computer, upload some code to it and plug various things into these little holes here. These are the pins you’ll hear them referred to in tutorials as pins.
You plug things into those to do your various stuff, for example. Let’S say i wanted this thing to. Let me know when somebody rings, my doorbell, whenever i’m in here shooting a video, i can’t hear it i’d wire up a switch there to this thing to a light, maybe or to a servo that is out here in my studio, that would lift a flag whenever Somebody rings my doorbell, that’s the kind of stuff you can do with this. It’S a fun little prototyping board and a great one to get started with.
There are tons of tutorials not only on our website at themakershed.com, but also at arduino’s website. There are tons of tutorials that take you through the programming if you’ve never programmed before you can get started with the arduino. If you buy this kit from us and enter the promo code that you’ll find on the product page, you actually get eight additional books.
We sell that bundle for about 99 bucks and that will take you through all the things you need to know to be able to work with an arduino on a variety of projects. For example, we have makes arduino bots and gadgets environmental monitoring with arduino learning, electronics with arduino lego and arduino projects getting started with the arduino. The third edition mind controlled arduino robot arduino, controlled robot, which is a little bit more general and basic arduino projects.
Eight titles to get you started, it’s a pretty good kit for the price kind of gives you everything you need to do the basic stuff thanks for joining us. I hope you enjoyed it. We’Ve got some really fun stuff that we’re doing on this channel. One new series that we started is called make rewind where we’re taking old footage we never published before and we’re putting it out on the youtube channel.
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