ELEGOO Mega R3 Project The Most Complete Ultimate Starter Kit with Tutorial Compatible with Arduino IDE

I bought the ELEGOO Mega R3 Ultimate Starter Kit to get hands-on experience with Arduino, and I’m really happy with the purchase. The kit comes with a Mega 2560 board and a huge variety of components like sensors, motors, LEDs, and more. Everything was well-organized in a plastic case, making it easy to keep things sorted. One of the best things about this kit is the tutorial. The step-by-step guides are clear and easy to follow, which is really helpful for beginners. The sample codes work well, and you can tweak them to understand how each component works. The quality of the components is good for the price. Some jumper wires were a bit flimsy, but they still did great job. The Mega 2560 board itself works just like the official Arduino board, and I had no issues connecting it to my laptop. Overall, this is a great kit for anyone who wants to learn electronics and programming with Arduino. It has everything needed to start experimenting and building projects. I would definitely recommend it to beginners and hobbyists.

I bought this for myself so I could learn more about circuits and programming. This kit is really cool and challenging. If you're a big kid or have a kid, or grandkid, or just know a smart kid who could use some inspiration - whatever, get this kit and dig in. There are a lot of fun projects that will challenge the brain and if you get it right, will serve up some rewarding moments. I found just initiating the kit, like just the beginning steps, getting it to work on my Mac, getting the files properly loaded, navigating the instructions to be a challenge and at times a bit of a puzzle in and of itself. It felt like a litmus test, as in, if you can't figure THIS out, you probably shouldn't be messing with this. And that made me smile. All of it is a test, a challenge, and compared to pushing buttons on the remote to watch more Netflix, I found this rewarding. So like I said - get this for yourself, get it for your kid. Have some fun making lights light up, and buzzers buzz.

I rarely give feedback on products and even more rarely give them 5 stars. This is a comprehensive starter kit at a very competitive price. I also bought the separate 37 sensor kit. There are so many gadgets in both these kits it will take me months to get through all of them. Yes, there are some misspelled words and other minor issues, but I think the company really put their heart into assembling a great product. And they freely give their contact information out in many places and want you to contact them with issues. Some other complaints are around getting started and using the product with the instructions provided. I was able to install everything and control an LED light with sample code in 8 minutes, not kidding. But you have to realize this is not a kids toy, these are real engineering components here. Its up to you to learn, problem solve and create what you want from the components as opposed to being a step by step kit. That's the whole fun of it. Those with a technical or engineering background will be at an enormous advantage. You must learn how to program using C code and research how the components work. For example, I was unable to get the stepper motor to work from this kit with the example stepper motor code that comes with Arduino IDE. But that's because the example code is for a different stepper motor and there are many different kits out there with different types of stepper motors. I took me two hours to learn about stepper motors and was able to write my own code to control it. I'm lucky to have an engineering background with a little bit of C code experience so I could see someone taking much longer to figure out the stepper motor issue or giving up completely. If you really want to learn Arduino, you can. Be patient, buy books like Programming Arduino by Simon Monk, browse forums, watch YouTube tutorials, etc. So I'll summarize by saying that this is a great product and ships as advertised. I suspect many frustrations are because this is a fairly advanced kit and not a toy. Thank you for reading my review and good luck. UPDATE: I spent more time going through the sample code provided by Elegoo and the stepper motor code they provided works perfect. My comments above were based on my grabbing the code that comes with Arduino IDE which was incompatible. Again, I think the kit is great. Probably most negative feedback coming from misunderstanding how to use everything.

I purchased this kit to get familiar with the Arduino controller in preparation for making some home automation projects for our pool, fountain, and landscape controls. I am familiar with electronic components, and I am an experienced programmer, so this review comes from that perspective. I have worked my way through the entire sequence of projects included in the kit. The controller board seems to be reasonably good quality, and works reliably. The other components in the kit were not heavy-duty, or of commercial quality, but I don't think it would reasonable to expect that given the price. I can say that everything did work pretty much as expected. The miscellaneous parts and sensors are adequate for experiments and learning, but you would probably not want to use these parts in anything that required a high degree of durability or reliability. On the plus side, there was a wide variety of devices, giving a broad overall view of what one can do with an Arduino. I did not experience any of the hardware issues that have been described by others. The tutorial and documentation was not up to U.S. standards, but significantly better that what you get from most Chinese companies. It was quite understandable, with only occasional confusing or inconsistent lapses. There were very few outright errors, most of which were minor, and easily detected and corrected if studied carefully. The software examples worked as described, although one project had a defective library file. The library was embedded inside of the duplicate directory, and would not compile...I have to say that figuring this out added to the learning experience for me, but could be frustrating for a beginner. I did send an inquiry about this error by Email to the company's support, and have not yet (after 1 week) received any reply, so I would not count on significant support...but everyone knows that is pretty much a given with Chinese companies, and it did not come as a surprise. This kit served its purpose in orienting me to the Arduino. Overall, I think this is reasonable value for the price and consistent with the product description, but do not expect significant company support or high-quality components. UPDATE 5/5: I did finally receive an Email from support, and they were responsive in looking into the error.

The hardware is as described - no concerns there. But the documentation is lacking. There's no central user manual for the kit. There's a QR code which is ok to scan with a phone. But the code leads to the generic Elegoo site. You're really on your own to figure out what to download and what to do with it.

An awesome kit for anybody interested in electronics or the Arduino. The specialized components (displays, sensors, modules) are all solidly built and the smaller components that I have used all worked fine. The Arduino programs pretty easily and is easy to connect to your PC or laptop with no hassles. All of the wiring in the kit (jumpers,, etc) worked well on the 5 or 6 projects I have done so far on the kit. Who is this kit for? Anybody interested in STEM at a beginner level. The value for what you get in this kit is pretty awesome too.

A good beginner package with some interesting lessons/projects to follow. I would recommend when following the tutorials for installation of the software (you need a computer), to utilize a more up to date online guide or an AI to guide you on the recent updates. As the tutorials that are published in the PDF document are outdated in that regard. A lot of the step are no longer necessary and are done automatically. As for the lessons/projects themselves, they could use a bit more detail to guide a complete novice like myself, but overall, they are pretty easy to follow and informative. For how much that this comes with, I think that it’s definitely well worth the money. It gives you quite a bit to do. Packaging was nice and the box comes well organized. I can’t compare this to anything, but it has been an enjoyable experience so far.

Really fun and huge kit. This has a ton of projects to do and most of them are pretty easy to set up. The kit comes with a library disc or you can visit their site and download the libraries for all of them there. There is a PDF file with the walk through on most of the items in the kit. You get a few extra items that are not used in the projects but are nice to have when working on additional projects (Extra: Capacitors, diodes, 9V battery w/cable, prototype expansion board). I was able to successfully complete almost all of the projects in the kit except for the (4 digit number display, IR remote to control the stepper motor and MPU-6050 module). The MPU-6050 module wouldn't display any information, it is pretty easy to wire up and check the readings in the serial monitor so I don't think It was wired incorrectly-I found a crack on the MPU-6050 so I think it may just be broken. I broke the IR sensor by wiring it wrong (it made a 'pop' noise and a funny burning smell) so I couldn't use it to control the stepper motor on one of the last projects so watch out for that. The four digit display also could be due to "user error" because it has a ton of pins that need to be connected and I wasn't sure everything was wired correctly. The PDF manual goes over how to set things up and explains what to expect when the component is powered on and describes the code but doesn't go into super fine detail over what every line means or what variables to change to change the component action so it can be a little difficult to understand. A few of the example pictures in the manual were different from the wiring diagram which can throw you off if you are not careful. I was very impressed with the quality and accuracy of all the information provided as well as the HUGE assortment of items it came with. I am super happy with all my stuff and am definitely getting another kit to add onto if all Elegoo's kits are is this organized and made! The kit was really well put together and has a good flow from easy to more challenging projects and includes everything you need to do all of the projects in the kit. If you have little experience with Arduino you can get through this pretty quickly and helps to understand installing and using the libraries and the Arduino IDE. I put pictures of the kit after I was done using everything and of the MPU-6050 I think was broken. I would've liked to see more detail on the actual writing code to set up other projects using the same components in the kit-like turning on other components from a sensor(buzzer with the motion detector, motor with the joystick) but it does a good job explaining what the code is actually doing for the individual projects and is overall really well written.

Very good for kids learning, my 8 years boy loved it.

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I’d say it is great for 8-18 kids and pre-college students to learn basic micro controller programming

This was my first foray into anything Arduino and I'm more than happy that I went with Elegoo! The kit came with everything advertised, all the online documentation was fairly updated and easy to understand with some patience and I was able to go through all the examples while learning how everything works. Some of the examples could have a little more explanation for beginners but I was easily able to find YouTube videos that helped with most of my questions. Overall this kit helped me learn the basics and I've now moved on to creating my own sketches and I have designed a few cool little devices for my home. I even had an issue with the included servo not fully functioning and all I had to do was email the Elegoo service department. I told them that I had a broken piece in the kit, they asked me for a few order details and sent a brand new one no other questions asked. Nive and easy, I love it!

Muy buen producto, aparte lo protegen muy bien para entregar