ELEGOO Mega 2560 R3 The Most Complete Starter Kit

Want to learn how to work with electronics and programming but need a little help? You've come to the right place!

ELEGOO MEGA 2560 Starter Kit provides an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software, which evolves the user from beginner to professional level.

The ELEGOO MEGA 2560 Starter Kit is designed for hands-on electronics, programming, and prototyping. It includes an ELEGOO MEGA 2560 R3 controller board, more than 200 components, and a PDF tutorial with 35+ guided lessons. Beginners can follow the projects step by step to learn basic circuits, digital and analog I/O, sensors, displays, motor control, and other common microcontroller applications. The controller board is compatible with Arduino IDE for programming and project development.

Starter kit for Everyone to Learn The Science of Electronics, Programming and Robotics

Electronics is not as complicated as you imagine especially with ELEGOO MEGA 2560 Starter Kit. For advanced users like professional lab engineers, electronics engineering students and experienced electronics hobbyists, they can use this kit to do various kinds of tests and experiments with so many sensors available at hand.

Beginners can follow the included lessons step by step to learn circuit building and programming, while students, makers, and experienced hobbyists can use the included modules for prototyping and experimentation. Explore projects involving LEDs, displays, RFID, motion and distance sensing, environmental monitoring, motor control, timing, and other common electronics applications. As skills develop, example circuits and code can be modified to create original multi-module projects.

The Most Complete Starter Kit with High Quality Components and Tutorial

Quantity and quality are both important here in ELEGOO MEGA 2560 R3 Starter Kit.

The kit combines an ELEGOO MEGA 2560 R3 controller board with a broad collection of sensors, displays, motors, and common electronic components. Build with LCD1602, RC522 RFID, ultrasonic and motion sensors, motors, LEDs, resistors, potentiometers, and an 830-point solderless breadboard. Selected modules include pre-soldered headers or wires to reduce setup time while still allowing users to practice traditional breadboard circuit building.

Sturdy quality is definitely the most important thing to ELEGOO even with so many components provided we never compromised on the quality. Instead we keep improving our product quality in our own factory and we produce the products by 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 your time.

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 a Mega board and a 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.

The 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. This project demonstrates motor direction control and shows how a driver IC allows the MEGA 2560 board to operate loads that require more current than an I/O pin can provide.

74HC595 Shift Register and LEDs

74HC595 is a Serial to Parallel Converter which has eight outputs and three inputs that you use to feed data into it a 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.