The Vilros Ultimate Starter kit is unimpressive on the outside. Vilros Ultimate Starter Kit / SparkFun Inventors Kit The only frustration with this kit is once you have everything assembled, it doesn’t all go back neatly in the box. The breadboard and the Arduino are mounted on a thin piece of pine which has been laser-cut and which requires a little assembly. And, well, a starter kit IS something special. It feels like you are getting something special. Underneath the manual is a set of neatly packaged copper colored boxes each with a different component or set of parts. Open the box and there is a nice plush manual inside.
The niceness of the Official Arduino Starter kit is like opening an Apple product.
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Update 10/19: ARDX kit added to comparison. It appears to be within their legal right to do this since they’ve attributed SparkFun as the original author. So Vilros took the manual and slapped their name on it, but still credited SparkFun on the back of the manual. How did they get away with this? Well, SparkFun released their manual under the CreativeCommons ShareAlike license. Update 10/10: It was discovered that the Vilros kit is a clone of the SparkFun Inventors Kit. The Vilros Ultimate Starter Kit / SparkFun Inventors Kit.
This review originally covered 3 of the most popular Arduino kits on the market, but we added 1 more: What better way to get started than with an Arduino starter kit? That’s the trick, though, isn’t it? There’s more than one starter kit out there! Yet to be a great wizard of such things, one must start at the humble beginnings of the very basics. The Arduino is a simple microcontroller that can allow the one who wields it great power and programmatic control over their electronic circuits and systems. The Arduino is arguably one of the best things to come to the “Maker” Renaissance that we are currently experiencing.
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