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Some Problems Addressed |
November 19, 2009 |
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Admin
from Sebastopol, CA United States
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Partial Datasheet uploaded
Partial Parts Pix up, better one on the way
New kits have RGB issue fixed, now common cathode
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What is included in this set? |
October 22, 2009 |
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Vikram Aggarwal
from San Jose, CA United States
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I was gifted this set, and it is a good collection of parts. It combines everything in one package. I like the book, though it has little to do with the parts. The parts required for the projects in the book are not the parts supplied (except for the Arduino....)
The biggest problem is you don't know which parts *are* supplied. It says here "2x thermistor", but which one!!! The thermistor just says 503 on it, which is completely useless (and that is assuming I'm looking at a thermistor!). Without the datasheet, I don't see how someone can use it. Another reviewer complained about how difficult it was to get the tri-color LED to work.. Slightly disappointing.
Buy an arduino elsewhere.
I'm hesitant about buying stuff from the Maker Shed after this disappointing experience. Later I discovered that there was busted wire, while debugging a fairly complicated circuit. Extremely disappointed with this set: a complete waste of money.
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Good content but... |
October 22, 2009 |
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Matt Davies
from Ballwin, MO United States
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OK. I am happy with the book and the contents of the kit with one exception. How on earth do you assemble the assembly-required components? I know when I have a fresh mind and a couple hours I'll be able to eventually figure some of it out, but it certainly would be helpful to at least give instructions on assembly.
I think I'll dig around and see if instructions exist online somehwere.
Looking forward to getting started.
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RGB LED docs are *wrong* |
July 30, 2009 |
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Ben Collins-Sussman
from Chicago, IL United States
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The "Getting started with Arduino" book claims that the longest LED pin is a common shared anode; even sparkfun's website says that as well. Yet somehow the RGB LEDs included in this kit have a common *cathode* instead. My brother and I each lost hours on this, trying to figure out why the LED wouldn't light... until we phoned each other. Only when reversing the whole circuit (5V to common anode, 3 separate cathodes go to resistors, then to pins 9,10,11) did the thing work. And of course it flips the meaning of the analog values of the pins: 255 means 'off' and 0 means 'on' now.
In any case, I have two recommendations for Maker Shed:
1. Please add documentation on some of these parts. If not, at *least* send an RGB LED with a common cathode!
2. Please include the "Getting Started" book as well. As others have said, the "Making Things Talk" book is fairly useless to newbies, since it's all about networking modules.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: |
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Overall good value |
July 22, 2009 |
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Anonymous person
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Mine came with a broken 9V battery case which isn't the end of the world but the rest of the kit appears complete and working as expected.
One thing that would be *very* helpful would be pointers to datasheets/specs for the less common components included in the kit (i.e. the rgb led and sensors)
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