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Much like the Arduino Starter Kit before it -- but better! Bridging the gap between the "real world" and your computer, the Advanced Arduino Starter Kit takes you further into the world of physical computing. We've included all sorts of cool electronic parts this time, along with our best selling Making Things Talk book by Tom Igoe, that help you delve deeper into the true capacity of the Arduino. You'll experience what the tens of thousands of engineers, designers, artists and hobbyists already know about this awesome and educational prototyping platform.

We have a limited amount in stock now but more are being produced, so if you can't get one right now please sign back up for the In-Stock email notification. Also available the Getting Started with Arduino Kit and the Arduino Projects Pack.


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Features
  • 1x Arduino Duemilanove (ATmega328)
  • 1x Mini breadboard
  • 1x Adafruit Protoshield (assembly required)
  • 1x 6FT. USB Cable
  • 1x Making Things Talk book
  • 1x 9V Battery Case w/DC Plug (assembly required)
  • 1x 9V Battery

  • Make Arduino Pack:
  • 10x 330 resistors
  • 10x 10K resistors
  • 10x 1K resistors
  • 10x 10nF ceramic capacitor
  • 10x 100nF ceramic capacitor
  • 5x 100uF electrolytic capacitor
  • 1x 40pin male breakaway headers
  • 1x Half size basic breadboard
  • 1x 75pcs deluxe jumper wire pack
  • 5x Mini Push Button for breadboard
  • 3x DPDT switch for breadboard
  • 2x Thermister
  • 5x Basic Green LED
  • 5x Basic Red LED
  • 3x 5mm RGB LED
  • 1x Piezo Buzzer
  • 1x 6 pin stackable female header
  • 3x 8 pin stackable female header
  • 5x 8 pin female header
  • 1x 40pin male breakaway dual-headers
  • 1x Harness for Arduino/Seeeduino kit
  • 2x Proto board
  • 1x Heat shrink tubing
  • 2x Tilt Sensor
  • 1x Rotary Potentiometer
  • 1x Mini DC motor
  • 1x Vibration Motor
  • 1x Transistor NPN
  • 1x Diode
  • 2x Photoresistor
  • 1x Component box

Average Customer Review: Based on 8 Reviews. Write a review.

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  1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 
Some Problems Addressed November 19, 2009
Reviewer: Admin from Sebastopol, CA United States  
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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  4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
 
What is included in this set? October 22, 2009
Reviewer: Vikram Aggarwal from San Jose, CA United States  
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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  4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
 
Good content but... October 22, 2009
Reviewer: Matt Davies from Ballwin, MO United States  
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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  8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
 
RGB LED docs are *wrong* July 30, 2009
Reviewer: Ben Collins-Sussman from Chicago, IL United States  
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:
 
Overall good value July 22, 2009
Reviewer: Anonymous person  
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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