ELEGOO UNO R3 The Most Complete Starter Kit

ELEGOO UNO R3 Most Complete Starter Kit provides an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software, which takes the user from beginner to professional level.

Our starter kit is designed to get you started quickly and easily on your path of learning electronics. Originally, this pack was designed to follow the introductory tutorials with 33 creative and fun projects on our CD and website. But it's a great starter kit in general, as it's designed for everyone, even novices who have very little or no electronics and programming experience. The starter bundle contains everything you need (except tools) to take your first step on your programming journey!

Product Objectives:

Engage with science, technology, engineering, and maths subjects in a fun way;

Hands-on learning, independent exploration, build resilience, flexibility, and Initiative; foster creativity;

Collaboration, communication, and teamwork

Starter Kit for Everyone to Learn Electronics, Programming and Robotics

Electronics is not as complicated as you imagine, especially with ELEGOO UNO R3 Starter Kit. Advanced users like professional lab engineers, electronics engineering students, and experienced electronic hobbyists can use this kit to do various kinds of tests and experiments with so many sensors available at hand. What about novice users who don't have any electronic knowledge? Fear, not amigo. Just follow our enclosed tutorial, and step by step you will come to realize that learning electronics is more fun than you ever expected with this amazing sensor kit. It’s a good choice of kit for your friends, family members, whoever is obsessed with electronics, programming, or robotics to take their first steps on their electronics journey!

The Most Complete Starter Kit with High Quality Components and Tutorial

Quantity and quality are both important here in the ELEGOO UNO R3 starter kit. The essential part in this kit is the UNO R3 controller board and expansion board, which is a clone with an excellent product finish, compatible with Arduino projects.

Besides, we offer over 60 kinds of components and sensors, from small parts like LED diodes, resistors, and potentiometers to big parts like LCD1602, RFID modules, and 830 tie-point breadboards, which meet your demands for your different projects, whether they are simple or complex.

Sturdy quality is definitely the most important thing to ELEGOO; even with so many components provided, we never compromise on quality. Instead, we keep improving our product quality in our own factory, and we produce the products ourselves under high standards and strict quality control. Pins and wires on some of the parts, like LCD1602 and motors, have been pre-soldered, which is very convenient and saves you time.

74HC595 Shift Register and LEDs

74HC595 is a serial-to-parallel converter that has eight outputs and three inputs that you use to feed data into it one bit at a time. This chip makes it a little slower to drive the LEDs (you can only change the LEDs about 500,000 times a second instead of 8,000,000 a second), but it's still really fast, way faster than humans can detect, so it's worth it!

74HC595 shift register is a type of chip that holds what can be thought of as eight memory locations, each of which can either be a 1 or a 0. To set each of these values on or off, we feed in the data using the 'Data' and 'Clock' pins of the chip.

LCD1602 Display module

LCD1602 module is a display that has an LED backlight and can display two rows with up to 16 characters on each row. You can see the rectangles for each character on the display and the pixels that make up each character. The display is just white on blue and is intended for showing text.

Lining up the display with the top of the breadboard helps to identify its pins without too much counting, especially if the breadboard has its rows numbered with row 1 as the top row of the board. Do not forget the long yellow lead that links the slider of the pot to pin 3 of the display. The 'pot' is used to control the contrast of the display.

DC Motors and L293D Transistor

In this project, you will learn how to control a small DC motor using an UNO R3 and an L293D transistor, which is a very useful chip. It can actually control two motors independently. We are just using half the chip in this lesson; most of the pins on the right-hand side of the chip are for controlling a second motor.

L293D is a quadruple high-current half-H driver designed for bidirectional control of DC motors and other inductive loads. It supports continuous output current of up to 600 mA per channel with a supply-voltage range of 4.5 to 36 V.

..................FAQ..................

Q1: What is the product for?

A1: What you are browsing is our Electronic Starter Kit.

ELEGOO learning kits are mainly used to learn and practice the basics of electronics, programming, and embedded systems. It can be used to create a variety of projects such as automation control, sensor data acquisition, robotics, lighting and sound effects, etc. Through hands-on experiments, users can master how to combine hardware and software to develop innovative electronic projects.

Our Starter Kits contain control boards and possible accessories. There are three stages: basic, super, and ultimate according to different user needs. The starter kits with more parts can be used to complete more complex and large experimental projects.

You can get more information about other ELEGOO starter kits in the comparison column below.

Q2: Where can I download the tutorial file?

A2: There is a quick guide in the kit, you can also download the tutorial from our official website or ELEGOO wiki.

NOTE: Lessons 1, 2, and 3 do not have example codes. They will only show you how to install, add libraries, and upload code to the board. The tutorial file is the PDF named after the product.

Q3: What are the differences between the ELEGOO UNO R3 complete starter kit and the ELEGOO MEGA 2560 complete starter kit?

A3: The main difference is the control board. The MEGA 2560 board (54 digital pins and 16 analog pins) has more I/O pins and program storage space than the UNO board (14 digital pins and 6 analog pins). Most code and projects that run on the Uno board will also run on the MEGA 2560. However, some complex projects that use more than 20 I/O pins and 32KB of memory will only run on the MEGA 2560 board.