Starter Pack for Arduino (Includes Arduino Uno R3) - 1.0?

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Starter Pack for Arduino (Includes Arduino Uno R3) - 1.0?

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Hello. New member here. Does this kit come with 'instructions? Does it come with sufficient parts to complete the online tutorials? I know the BIG starter kit has a book with instructions, and kit 1.03 has a nice web version guide to the projects. Just curious if kit 1.0 has projects with documentation? Looking to get started ... but fear this passion will consume much of my time :(

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Re: Starter Pack for Arduino (Includes Arduino Uno R3) - 1.0

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The starter pack does not come with "instructions" - instead, you follow the online tutorials on our Adafrui Learning System. There are enough parts to complete the first few Lessons, but the rest of the tutorials require additional components.

You might be happier with the ARDX pack, which does come with the hardcopy "Experimenter's Guide". It also comes with enough parts to complete most of the Arduino Lessons on our Learning System.

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adafruit_support_rick wrote: You might be happier with the ARDX pack, which does come with the hardcopy "Experimenter's Guide". It also comes with enough parts to complete most of the Arduino Lessons on our Learning System.
Hello there. Unfortunately I ordered the starter pack, not realizing it does not have the components I would need to follow the tutorials. I am a complete beginner to this and seem to be having trouble with lesson #2 for example due to a lack of parts.

Is there some sort of kit available that I could order that would supplement the starter pack so as to add all the components in the ARDX pack (with out having duplicate parts) so I could follow along the lessons? I'm a bit frustrated in that I cant carry on the with the basic lessons.

For example, the starter pack comes with the the tiny breadboard whereas the ARDX has the half size bread board. The wiring diagrams in the lessons reference the half size. Since the tiny breadboard does not have the + & - sections, is there some way to know how this would correlate to the half size? As I mentioned I am a beginner, so please forgive my question if is a very fundamental one.

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Re: Starter Pack for Arduino (Includes Arduino Uno R3) - 1.0

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Hear, hear. It'd be great to have an Adafruit Arduino kit that lines up with the first few tutorials, or a reorganized set of tutorials that lines up with what's in the kit.

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That's a great suggestion. I'll pass it along to the Powers That Be.
Meanwhile, I'm afraid you'll have to purchase the necessary parts ala carte.

You can dedicate a couple of rows on the tiny breadboard to be + and - buses. That's about all I can suggest for that. Otherwise, just do point-to-point wiring for power and ground

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