![]() ![]() Now that I think about it.arduinos has made me a better man because it believes in me. Now that I know the instructions will lead me astray.I've accepted it.and it has made me a stronger, more capable human being. SO.by all means get the kit.BUT be prepared to be left scratching your head and figuring things out yourself for a while. I can say I was really excited to get lights to turn on and off, etc. probably because once you get past the shortcomings of the kit.the projects are actually really cool and they make you feel like a self-made engineer. I'm honestly surprised that it has such high reviews. Either that.or they just didn't quality check anything. So.cool kit.but I feel like the authors may have been smoking weed when they wrote this book and developed the pieces for the kit. It doesn't even come CLOSE to fitting the arduino once you've connected the wires and resistors to it. And don't even bother with the "Spaceship control board template" cardboard thingy provided. I had to figure that out on my own after I tried to MANUALLY type the code out for 30 minutes FOLLOWING the book's instructions. Also, with project 2, they didn't tell you that you're simply supposed to go into the software, look for project two in the dropdown menu, and upload the provided code to the arduino. WTF ? So you just kind of have to improvise and hope things work. For instance, the picture in the book will tell/show you to use a long, RED wire.but in reality the kit only provides you with long, GREEN and BLUE wires. Also, the color coding is all over the place. ![]() I consider myself a pretty smart guy.but I literally had to read a few pages 5-6 times looking for steps I missed.but I hadn't missed any. ![]() The book assumes that you can fill the gaps and just carry out tasks. the book will say "Walk out of your front door.when you arrive at the gas station around the corner, pump gas".so it totally LEFT OUT the fact that you need to get in your car, start the car, follow a predetermined path to the gas station.etc. Moving on.the instructions have ALOT of gaps. How do you not provide the screws that you're telling me to use for SETUP. So I spent the first 30 minutes after opening the box scouring my kitchen, garage, and closets looking for perfect sized screws to fit the kit and attach the arduino to the included board. this kit says something like "EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO GET STARTED WITH ARDUINOS PROJECTS".but yet.literally one of the FIRST instructions says "use screws to attach your arduino to the board, don't over tighten" (shows three small screws).but yet.THERE ARE NO SCREWS IN THE KIT! It's crazy. Now that I've got that out of the way.the DOWNSIDES.RIGHT out of the box. 1st of all, Arduinos is really cool.and I'm so grateful that normal people can buy this hardware/software on Amazon for tinkering, creating, etc. I've only been using the kit for one day, but I give it a solid 3 stars. ![]()
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