ELEGOO UNO R3 Project Most Complete Starter Kit with Tutorial Compatible with Arduino IDE (200+ Components)

I was looking for an Arduino clone starter kit and considered many options. I’m an Electrical Engineer with 15+ years experience designing, manufacturing and testing space flight electrical hardware for satellites. I have a very high standard for quality and was hesitant to purchase this kit due to its low price and my fears that it would be total junk. However, I figured the price was so darn low that even if it turned out to be junk, it wouldn’t be a huge waste. Wow, am I glad I bought this!First, the set arrives in a very useful organizer. I found this to be a really nice feature and helps save time when searching for parts to build each different project.Upon initial inspection, the quality of each component appeared very acceptable. Definitely low-quality parts — as you’d rightfully expect at this price point — but certainly no where near “junk” quality. By low-quality, I’m referring to mostly the solder quality, but also the individual piece-parts used in the assemblies are your standard Chinese low-grade parts. Some soldered parts were installed misaligned and some PCB assemblies still had visible contamination on them from inadequate washing. Again, this is all to be expected at this price point and so far, I was very pleased. The real test is if everything worked...I completed all the tutorials and found the instructions very easy to follow. A CD is included in the kit, which supposedly contains all the required software, tutorials and datasheets. My laptop doesn’t have a CD ROM drive so I downloaded everything on the Elegoo website. That’s probably the best option anyway — that way, you know you are using the latest versions of everything. The datasheets were a nice-to-have, although some of them were not as detailed as they should be. Still useful nonetheless. The tutorial manual was clearly written — it’s definitely not poorly translated Chinese-to-English like I expected. It’s entirely written in clear English. In some places, I wish it did a better job explaining the code and syntax, but honestly, that’s something Google can handle. Every tutorial was completed easily and I discovered only one technical mistake: the tutorial on DC motor control omitted a ground jumper between the Arduino board and the breadboard/motor controller board. Consequently, the control signal logic levels were not correctly referenced to the same ground potential on both boards. The motor did not respond correctly at first but some quick troubleshooting lead me to add the ground connection and everything worked flawlessly after that. I’ve tested every component in the kit now and everything works as intended. I’m a little bit surprised at this but very, VERY happy.This kit has been a ton of fun to play with. It’s perfect for anyone wanting to get started with Arduinos. It has so many different cool components that this will keep you entertained and get your creative juices flowing. I highly recommend it!

The media could not be loaded. This gift was an instant hit with my teenage grandson. We worked together on it. He loved learning about coding and robotics. This is truly a complete kit with all types of projects using sensors, motors and abundant tutorials. It is an excellent value.

I haven't made a lot of use of this yet, but I have been impressed with the quality of the equipment and the good documentation. Definitely a great learning resource.

Overall this is a good started set, it comes with enough to do many beginner projects.The Elegoo UNO board has performed just as well as the real Ardruino board. I have been testing every project on this board and a legit Arduino board and have found no differences at all. This board works perfectly with the Arduino IDE.Most of the included parts are great and work perfectly for beginner projects, however I do have some complaints and problem with a few parts. The included resisters do work, and show the correct resistance when tested with a multi-meter, however they are some of the cheapest resistors I have ever seen, the wire is so ridiculously thin that it is annoying to insert into the breadboard without bending them, also when you do get it inserted they are so small that the bread board does not grip them well, I have had to wiggle them around and change slots on the breadboard to find the tightest slot in order to get a solid connections. The included Mosfet transistors are very small and weak, using them for the standard DC motor tutorial caused them to get extremely hot and burn out, I replaced them with stronger mosfets. I had trouble with the rotary encoder, I am not entirely sure if it is defective or if the problem is on my end, it works, but not well. I have tried almost everything from this kit, I will come back and update this review if I encounter any more problems.Another thing that bothers me is that they do not include any technical specifications on any of the parts, no diagrams showing what pins are for what, no information on what the part is rated for. You can find this information for most of the parts by googling the part number, but some parts dont have any identifying marks.The pictures I added show a real Arduino board, but I did test everything with both the Elegoo UNO and the real UNO and worked the same on both, I just forgot to take the picture when the Elegoo board was connected.Overall this has been a fun starting kit and I do enjoy it and feel it was a good purchase.

I purchased this to learn about electronics and I’m really happy with the kit so far.Everything seems really durable and stands up to some of the mess ups that occur during learning. I crossed a couple of wires and inserted things the wrong way into the bread board. And everything still works once I figured out how to do it the right way.The USB cable that plugs into the controller is pretty short and I would prefer one at least 3 feet long. That’s really my only complaint so far.This kit has such a low cost of entry to get into something that could build a lifetime of interest. This kit also comes with a lot of different modules.

This is a great complete starter kit. I bought it and tried every single project. Everything works great. It includes code for each project including the wiring diagram. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who is interested in Electronics projects.

Good variety of sensors and actuators with sample code to test them out. Perfect introduction to Arduino robotics for someone with no prior experience (electronics or programming background would be helpful but I don’t think it’s necessary )