posted by LynnCochran on 05/12/2013
Certified Owner
Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month
Pros:
Has parts for building a breadboard Arduino, and comes in a neat crush-resistant plastic box (survived shipping). After I burned a bootloader into the ATmega328P-PU microcontroller, and replaced a bad 16 MHz crystal that came with the kit, I was able to bu...
Cons:
No manual, no jumpers, and my kit came with a bad 16 MHz crystal. The ATmega328P-PU comes unprogrammed, so I got to learn how ...
Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month
Pros:
Perfect if you want to understand more about arduino inner working. This is all you need to assemble your own arduino. This is also useful if you want to implement a project using arduino, you don't need all the components a real arduino has if you don't wa...
Cons:
No manual, you must search the internet if want to know how to assemble it. And I think the breadboard is not really necessary.
posted by LynnCochran on 05/12/2013 Certified Owner
Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month