kuman Complete Starter Kit with Detailed Tutorial and Reliable Components for Arduino Project Mega 2560 Robot breadboard Kits

As an avid maker and YouTuber, people often ask me what to buy to get started with Arduino. I usually ask them what they want to do with the Arduino and suggest components useful towards their project. But this kit is very reasonably priced for all the components included. So, I decided to check it out before I would recommend it to my friends.I'm happy to report that is a great value! You could get it cheaper directly from China, but for just a few dollars more I received it in two days instead of four weeks waiting from China.It is a good kit, but let's start with the bad news:It is a Chinese clone, not a genuine Arduino, but it works fine. You might have to install some drivers, but I didn't have to because I already use many clone Arduinos.There is no printed instructions, the CD contains some "lessons" that are more of a guide to build using the various components with very little explanation. The diagrams were often confusing, but thankfully there are plenty FREE excellent Arduino resources online. There is even a decent knockoff book on the CD.The worst thing about this kit hopefully is that ALL the white jumper wires were defective (the two ends are not connected to each other). The wires look perfectly fine, but there must've been a manufacturing defect on all the white batch. I spent over an hour before I deduced that SOME of the wires weren't working! Whoever heard of a broken jumper wire?!If you're still reading you might be wondering why I gave this item a five star?!Well, I contacted Kuman, and they were very responsive and sent replacement jumper wires and matrix (it had a dead pixel). Thanks KumanTech!Now the good:This kit is an incredible value for the money. I'm not even sure you could purchase all the pieces separately from China for a better price.Having it all in one box two days after I order it is worth it.Parts come well packed. Parts that needs padding were padded. No pins were bent (as is often the case if you order directly from China).There are many similar kits, but I like this one because of the included parts. The number of projects you could build JUST with this kit is pretty amazing.You really could start playing with Arduino with just what you receive in this kit (and the internet as your resource).It even comes with a battery! That you don't really need because you can power everything off the USB port of your computer which you will need to program the Arduino anyway.I could go on praising every part of this kit. There are so many parts to play with. I'm going to stop writing and go play some more. AMA.

The Good: Ridiculously fantastic deal. The components that I have used (I'd say about half of them) I've had no issues with whatsoever. Complete newbie, knew nothing about programming (aside from half a course of Python) but I jumped right in. There's mountains of example code across the internet, for most things you probably won't have to write anything from scratch. The books that get emailed to you after a couple of days are *amazing* resources. Tons of sample code, good explanations, and each is hundreds and hundreds of pages.The bad: Some of the -quality- on some of the components feels cheap as if it's not designed to last. Things like jumpers and what have you don't make as good of a connection as I'd prefer. The books and info about it took a few days, was happy when it came, but I was anxious to get started. Good luck ever getting everything back in the case ever again.Overall: Love it. Price point was freakin' perfect. Will keep you busy for weeks, months, possibly years. Really does have everything you could want in a kit like this. Good for all skill levels. Rock on Kuman!

I agree with the positive comments by others. This kit is an outstanding value and, so far, everything works okay. I'm a beginner and I see hours and hours of learning and fun ahead. My only little nit-pick is the USB cable. It has braided metal shielding inside that makes it very stiff so your little, light weight Arduino board never sits flat and wants to jump all over. If an Arduino/breadboard holder was included it would have been nice. I built my own weighted holder. Problem solved. If you decide to screw your Arduino to a wood board as I did be careful to use some stand-offs in the back to protect the pins. I used some felt "dots".

The media could not be loaded. Have not had a chance to delve into this kit yet, when I do I’ll add more. It was at a sale price so purchased even though I’m doing my annual yard work. Everything looks of good quality with plenty of components to do beginners projects. Plenty of items to get the Arduino programming under my belt. It uses standard breadboards so I can easily add it to my current projects or expand on this kit.I have included my first open box video, so hopefully, it’ll be of help to someone.Kuman K4-US for Arduino Project Complete Starter Kit with Detailed Tutorial and Reliable Components for UNO R3 Mega 2560 Robot Nano breadboard Kits

This product is is a great Arduino starter kit. You can check out the components listed in the product description. I have tried most of the components and found them to be quality. Connections are easy, the pieces are solid, and there is plenty to play around with. It is time to get a few more pieces and parts so I can turn it into a sumo bot. (Can you say 3D printer?)The instructions are lacking a little, but that is the nature of Arduino in general, that said there are so many useful sites available for learning and this set is an Arduino Uno compatible kit. Arduino as language is very C/Java-like and easy enough to learn.My computer science kids have been loving it, and who knows, maybe we will incorporate this into our robotics club in the future. I highly recommend this as a starter kit.