Hey guys, I am looking to pick up a starter electronics kit for messing around learning electronics, and programming. I have a couple teensys, going to get Arduino IDE with the Teensyduino addon, breadboard, and a good amount of male to male jumper wires.Radio shack used to sell some diy kits that you build. Really simple stuff, and cheap, but is pretty neat once you start learning more fundamentals.
Looking for suggestions for a kit to pick up. Wouldn't mind if it had a buzzer to mess with that sort of thing on keystroke.
Hey guys, I am looking to pick up a starter electronics kit for messing around learning electronics, and programming. I have a couple teensys, going to get Arduino IDE with the Teensyduino addon, breadboard, and a good amount of male to male jumper wires.Radio shack used to sell some diy kits that you build. Really simple stuff, and cheap, but is pretty neat once you start learning more fundamentals.
Looking for suggestions for a kit to pick up. Wouldn't mind if it had a buzzer to mess with that sort of thing on keystroke.
What type of stuff are you planning on doing? If hobby stuff, i'd suggest arduino or a raspberry pi. Depending on the specific stuff you plan on doing, there are more addons you would probably need in addition.
I think to start, one of the arduino starter kits would be good to go with. They are a bit pricey, $100-150, but will give you quite a bit to play with. I'm not sure if they come with relays, but a relay board would be good as well. Last I looked you can get low voltage ones with 6 on a board and are pretty affordable. I'm not too familiar with the arduino specifics, but know the RPi outputs pretty low voltage on the gpio pins, and a relay is needed for just about everything. Plus it's offers circuit isolation from the board.Hey guys, I am looking to pick up a starter electronics kit for messing around learning electronics, and programming. I have a couple teensys, going to get Arduino IDE with the Teensyduino addon, breadboard, and a good amount of male to male jumper wires.Radio shack used to sell some diy kits that you build. Really simple stuff, and cheap, but is pretty neat once you start learning more fundamentals.
Looking for suggestions for a kit to pick up. Wouldn't mind if it had a buzzer to mess with that sort of thing on keystroke.
What type of stuff are you planning on doing? If hobby stuff, i'd suggest arduino or a raspberry pi. Depending on the specific stuff you plan on doing, there are more addons you would probably need in addition.
The issue with RS, is I don't think there is one in the state, I know there isn't one inside of an hour drive.
End game goal, learning specifics and details to control leds with momentary switches with the firmware. Trying to keep the budget down for now and already have a couple of teensy controllers and a couple bread boards with jumped wires.
At this point wanting to experiment with keyboard related stuff one aspect at at time, all the way up to buzzer and solenoids.
Um... the pre-assembled Kits are usually for kids, who are satisfied with turning a light on and off.. maybe a little motorized cart, that sort of thing..
As an adult, you'd probably get bored of all that stuff after reading the instructions how to build them..
So....... I 'd recommend analyzing some of your day to day redundancies that can be automated, And build into that..
It sounds like you're not looking for an "electronics" kit, but rather a microcontroller kit. You should check out adafruit's offerings, like this one: https://www.adafruit.com/products/170
Not "cheap", but a little nicer than having to assemble junk boxes. Especially since it doesn't sound like you're near an electronics surplus store.
It sounds like you're not looking for an "electronics" kit, but rather a microcontroller kit. You should check out adafruit's offerings, like this one: https://www.adafruit.com/products/170
Not "cheap", but a little nicer than having to assemble junk boxes. Especially since it doesn't sound like you're near an electronics surplus store.
It sounds like you're not looking for an "electronics" kit, but rather a microcontroller kit. You should check out adafruit's offerings, like this one: https://www.adafruit.com/products/170
Not "cheap", but a little nicer than having to assemble junk boxes. Especially since it doesn't sound like you're near an electronics surplus store.
this is what i'm talking about though,
it's got a servo, a motor, and some leds..
I mean, ,what are you going to make with that , which won't immediately be uselessly boring.
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It makes sense for kids, because they can turn a little flag to 30 degrees, 47 degrees, and they could watch that for hours.. all on the same $85...
Are we going to have our pal Melvang a grown ass man, watch a little flag turn exactly 30 degrees for hours ?
It sounds like you're not looking for an "electronics" kit, but rather a microcontroller kit. You should check out adafruit's offerings, like this one: https://www.adafruit.com/products/170
Not "cheap", but a little nicer than having to assemble junk boxes. Especially since it doesn't sound like you're near an electronics surplus store.
this is what i'm talking about though,
it's got a servo, a motor, and some leds..
I mean, ,what are you going to make with that , which won't immediately be uselessly boring.
hahahahahaha.....Show Image(http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/onion-head/ahaaah-onion-head-emoticon.gif?1292862489)
It makes sense for kids, because they can turn a little flag to 30 degrees, 47 degrees, and they could watch that for hours.. all on the same $85...
Are we going to have our pal Melvang a grown ass man, watch a little flag turn exactly 30 degrees for hours ?
The tuning a flag exactly 30° 47" 25' would be a precursor to setting up CNC control with stepper motors, so that would have a practical application. The testing with little stuff in a kit is to learn to do it properly before moving to expensive stepper motors sized to move 18"x46" cast iron bridge port beds.
There are these cool LED light boxes you can build and program. It comes as a kit of LEDs on leads and you either plug them in or solder them onto a base pcb, depending on the kit. The you can do some very light programming to create your own 3D light show and pictures. A great and fun introductory tool for burgeoning engineers.Show Image(https://cdn.instructables.com/FGB/9LL9/HYZX3M6L/FGB9LL9HYZX3M6L.MEDIUM.jpg)