Arduino Starter Kit from Elegoo

hey what's happening guys I got something pretty cool here I want to show you but first I want to say whoever sent me this from the Amazon wish list the silicon controlled rectifier thank you very much it didn't tell me who it's from so I must thank you anonymously so up mr. anonymous thank you very much you guys will be seeing this in an upcoming video now on to today's video and that is what's in this box which is the most complete starter kit Uno r3 but before we get into this box and this was very kindly provided by Ella Goose so thank you very much Ella gay for sending this out to us what is Arduino I mean if you follow my channel for a long time you know what it is it's a microcontroller but what does it do what does it allow you to do why would you be interested in it well you know a hundred different things so let's let's cover that real quick first the folks who are unfamiliar with Arduino but might be interested in it open up the starter kit here and there's a ton of stuff in here don't worry we're gonna get to it but first I just want to get out the Uno r3 so that we can talk about there are at least 20 different arduino models on the market the r3 is probably the most common the most popular whatever you want to say about it so here's going to be a quick recap if you guys aren't in stood in watching the recap because you know you're familiar with Arduino go ahead and skip ahead for those of you who aren't here's here's let's talk okay let's talk about it real quick right here is the microcontroller this IC and this is the Atmel I'm probably gonna get this wrong eighty 328p I believe and this simply takes the place of what are called discrete electronics transistors resistors whatever you can do with them generally you can do with this so this is the heart of it everything else on this board simply supports this chip for instance you know this is your USB input well there's your USB controller this is some power supply stuff over here and that's it everything else just supports this chip so you can actually program this chip take it off the board and use this somewhere else no problem there's a couple LEDs for status this is a different type of programmer here but it all boils down to what we call these pins here GPIO general-purpose input/output pins and we take a look here these are some special purpose ones we have reset 3.3 volts 5 volts couple grounds and a voltage in and then we have some analog pins here but over here on this side is where we have the digital pins and this is what you're going to be using most of the time so to sum it up and make this as simple as I possibly can by programming this microcontroller you can turn these pins individually or in groups on or off if you turn them on they output a very low current at five volts if you turn them off they output zero volts so you don't output anything at all conversely they can read a five volt or zero volt signal so you can tell if something else is on or off now the analog pins are different they can read from 0 to 5 volts and anywhere in between but that's some you know that's another factor of it the main the main thing is here's what you need to remember this I see here the Atmel 8e 328p controls these pins and simply turns them on or off or reads whether they are on or off and that is an incredibly simplified explanation of arduino but by turning these pins on or off or checking if they're on or off you can do a million different things all right so thus ends my recap of what an Arduino is let's get into what's included in this really nice kit so if we open up this kit we have this nice card here and if you flip it over it gives you an idea of all the things that are inside of it and this is probably the best way to get into Arduino if you have no experience at all just to simply buy a starter kit again this one is from the company Ella goo there are others but we're looking at this one today on this CD or maybe it's a DVD I'm not sure you'll find PDF manual code and different libraries so this is going to have some instructional materials some reference material and libraries a lot libraries for what makes working with the Arduino so easy say you need to read a certain type of sensor well you don't have to reinvent the wheel you can just go find the library for that sensor and access it through your Arduino program which in our tweener language is called a sketch okay so included in the kit is the elegant you know our three again like I said this is probably the most popular of the different models of Arduino out there it's simple to use and yeah excellent to have great place to start okay next up is apparently a wall work type power supply this one is of course supplied with you know the US plug since we are in the US market this is nine volt at one amp and that will work just fine for your r3 because what we have here is a voltage regulator you can put up to about 17 volts I think into the Arduino but generally you want to keep it around nine volts keep things operating nice and cool so we got our uno we've got our nine volt 1 amp power supply next up now this is a breadboard power supply just behind a breadboard I think there's one included in the kit yeah here we go so this is our 830 tie point breadboard this is the long breadboard the standard length I call it so breadboards where you're gonna you know do most your experimenting we have to have a way to get power to it and that's one of these little guys here is for you see you have a positive and a negative rail on each side you just want to make sure that you put your negatives and positives in the correct place and then you can just plug this guy in here and now your positive and negative rails are energized works out really nice so there's the breadboard in the breadboard power supply all right next up we have an Arduino shield now there are a number hoops of different shields we'll come back to that this one's basically what's called an experimenter shield you can get shields with sensors in them and stuff like that this one allows you to do your own experimenting so you can work out your own circuits on here after you say you know say after you've done it on the breadboard you can transfer it to here and have your circuit ready to go so very nice you get a selection of resistors I'm not going to go through all these they appear to be either quarter watt gathered big enough they're probably quarter watt resistors I've got lots of videos in my basic electronics playlist if you're unsure what resistors are now this is nice this is a membrane keypad you can connect up this jack here to various pins on your Arduino and even though these have numbers and letters you can make them do it everyone in a sticky back so you can put it on somewhere and use it very nice again now over here so I can actually get something to open this is an 8x8 matrix module and it uses the max what the heck is that chip called two one nine chip you give it voltage ground data in chip select and clock and you can turn on any one or multiples of those dots these are a lot of fun and they can be joined together I've made a clock out of them and it's one of my more popular videos you can check that out my playlists as well all right where should we go next how about up here got your standard USB cord to connect the Arduino to your computer we've got some jumper wires these are male to male these are also known as dupont cables these are male to female we've got a 9-volt battery clip which is really nice you can power once you've programmed your ear arduino and you don't need it hook to the computer anymore you can power it from a 9-volt battery and we have a simple stepper mode now with the stepper motor you need a driver and you can see that is quite well stuck in there that's on here - that's your stepper motor driver I've done a video on these as well just search for our stepper motors alright well we got here a few various sensors I'm going to empty them out here and then we can talk about them individually they'll come out of their bags okay so this first one is actually not a sensor it's a rotary encoder which looks a lot like a potentiometer but it's not I've did a video on how these work basically there's two wheels in there and they go in and out of phase to let a microcontroller determine whether you're turning at one direction or another and it has a clickable switch these are very nice this is an infrared sensor and it would be used with an infrared remote control to do infrared projects this is a temperature sensor temperature and humidity actually this is real easy to use and probably one of the best starter projects if you've never done Arduino before is to put one of those together this is the H CSR o4 which is an ultrasonic distance sensor real easy to use you give it voltage and ground then it has a trigger pin when you put a pulse on the trigger pin of fires out and ultrasonics signal comes back on the echo pin and can determine distance these are a lot of fun to play with again I've done videos on them as well now what we've got here is a little joystick these are pretty cool so this is like what you would find on your Playstation their Xbox and it allows you to control things um you can't do it with an r3 but there are a couple of arduino s-- that you can actually use these things as a hid device all right next up early it the last thing this is a PIR or a passive infrared sensor this will sense body heat and it will activate one of these pins which you can then read with your uno and turn something else on say an alarm or a light so you see how that all comes together by reading whether or not something is turned on or off and then determining whether or not to turn something else on or off you can create an entire project I think that's pretty cool this is a seven segment four digit LED display probably common cathode you've seen these everywhere real nice they're fun to work with this is the same thing but only a single digit this is a relay this is a songul relay these are pretty nice 10 amp 250 volt AC 10 amp 30 volt DC you know you energize to the contacts of the relay that energizes a coil closes a magnetic switch and allows you to turn something else on what you can do with this is you can use a low-power circuit like the Arduino to energize a high-power circuit like an AC mains powered light allows you to keep things separate standard little DC motor and you can see it comes with a little fan attachment so you can do some stuff with that this is okay this is a gyroscope and this particular one [Music] hold on a second while I figure out which particular one this is gy5 21 and appears to be I squared C I could be wrong anyway it determines its position in space and relays that information to your Arduino very cool we've got a moisture sensor here when a drop of water would short out either any of these two things it turns on so if you wanted to make a rain sensor you know you would put this outside an area when it gets wet it would turn on one of these pins which you could use to activate to something else we've got a sixteen by two LCD display very useful using tons of Arduino projects very nice we got a server this is little nine grams mini servo you can use it to create circular motion basically which can be translated into linear motion as well we've got a sound sensor again when it detects sound of a certain level turns a pin on this is a real-time clock once you set it you can forget it and it will keep track of time they've also been enclosed a 9-volt battery for our use there now here we have an RFID system there's an RFID tag there's an RFID card and this is the reader so it can read data on here you can use this to activate or deactivate open doors things like that again very cool and I have videos on how to do that and finally we have a selection of components a couple of potentiometers which are basically variable resistors we have some capacitors and touch switches some LEDs some diodes transistors those look like standoffs some more capacitors Paizo Sounders and a couple of what appear to be a yeah one is a shift register and the other is an l2 39d motor driver so there's everything back in the box you get a nice little card if you have a problem Ella good customer service and this will be a valuable resource having this CD or DVD so that you can get the information you need to get started now this kit is available on Amazon it's fifty three dollars fifty three ninety nine so $54 it is a very complete kit this will get you going and get you through many many projects and whoops I forgot some and on your way to understanding the Arduino Uno world and architecture and how it all fits together can you do every project you'll find on the internet with this kit no but you're not going to be able to do every project you find on the internet with any kit this is a great way to get into it yeah you could find this probably cheaper off of you know eBay China or banggood or whatever ellegua is a good brand I bought a lot of their stuff I trust it that's really all I can say about it again thanks again for elgu for sending this kit out this is a really nice kit and appreciate them thinking of us thank you guys for watching I hope you enjoyed this if you're new to Arduino I hope this gave you a little bit of a introduction and if you're not new to Arduino and you stayed around and watch this thanks a lot I really appreciate it anyway that's it I'm out peace [Music]

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Length: 21min 46sec (1306 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 30 2018