I recently picked up an inexpensive Arduino Uno starter kit to expand my knowledge of software, hardware, and mechatronics. It’s been a number of years since I had the time to play with coding, electronics, and little blinking lights.
I purchased the Elegoo EL-KIT-003 UNO Project Super Starter Kit with Tutorial for Arduino from Amazon. It is a complete solution for learning the basics of using an Arduino and comes with a lot of nice hardware to play with. So far, I have enjoyed working with the multi-colored LEDs, the joystick, the servo motor, and the four digit LED display using a shift register to control it. I’m looking forward to playing more with the motor driver and doing some more mix-and-match exploration with all of the components that the kit came with.
As I play around with remixing the tutorials into more interesting projects, I’ll probably post up some instructions and code snippets.