And they helpfully suggested that I go to RadioShack to purchase any missing components. They agreed that it's unreasonable for the kit to be the same price without the arduino, and they said they would contact RadioShack about that. I emailed seeeeeeedstudio about this, and they weren't able to offer much help. And all the transistors and the thermometer sensor component were simply missing. The header pins were not long enough to be used in the way described in the instructions, at all. The breadboard overlay sheets are printed incorrectly, and they don't line up with the pins properly. Then, there are several flaws and missing components.
But I was making an assumption in thinking that if it's the same product, at the same price, with the same name, it would include the same stuff.
Now, the packaging doesn't state anything about including an Arduino or not, and if it was that important to me, I probably should have double-checked instead of just rushing to the cash register with it. Despite the information online clearly stating that it includes an Arduino Uno R3, there is no Arduino. I'd dabbled with Arduino a fair bit but wanted to get more into it, so I decided to buy it on sight.įirst thing, right off the bat - no Arduino included. I've had my eye on this kit for a while and I was familiar with it from the seeedstudio website. So I'm strolling through RadioShack, and I see this ARDX Arduino Starter Kit looking like the one here: and the price was also rather similar. Or, in the alternative, recommend this to your enemies. I'm not particularly proud of this, but I wanted to pass along my experience so that nobody else gets burned or recommends this to a friend to get burned. So, I spent $70 on some random components and a little breadboard at RadioShack.
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