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Wasted my entire morning. Still contemplating on getting at least an Arduino Starter Kit...
by julsonl 17y ago
Wasted my entire morning. Still contemplating on getting at least an Arduino Starter Kit...
- kellishaver 17y agoI'm going to get the starter kit, but since I have to pay for it, it's cheaper from Hacktronics. They call it something else, but it looks to be the same kit, or maybe better, for my purposes. http://www.hacktronics.com/Arduino/Arduino-Educational-Learning-Kit/flypage.tpl.html http://www.hacktronics.com/Arduino/Arduino-Educational-Learn... I wanted "Programming Interactivity" as well, which is cheaper on Amazon.
- julsonl 17y agoNice find. Their ethernet shield is cheaper too. (I need to fight the urge to buy more shields...).
- Pahalial 17y agoSadly hacktronics is US-only, whereas sparkfun is not.
- Jach 17y agoI was going for that too, but wanted the "Making Things Talk" book (which is also cheaper on Amazon). Getting the individual pieces for the kit on sparkfun was also cheaper than getting the kit, and you could get a full size breadboard too. Thanks for the find.
- kellishaver 17y agoHmm, I never thought to price them individually. I'd just assumed that the kit would be cheaper. I wonder how many kits they sell based on that assumption? Oh well. Even with shipping from hacktronics it was still $5 cheaper than sparkfun's base price before shipping. I built radios and stuff as a kid, but I've never done any micro-controller programming... should be fun. :)