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The Kuman Starter Kit is a comprehensive electronic bundle featuring 236 essential components, including a precision breadboard, jumper wires, and free tutorials, designed to empower beginners in their exploration of Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects.
R**M
Good basic kit of bits, documentation a bit sketchy.
Great little kit of bits in a box, although other comments about lack of range of resistors and trouble accessing some of the information on the website should be borne in mind, especially given a couple of the components appear not to be documented at all. (To get the datasheets, search for K66 on the Kumantech website - there's a card with a QR code to get to this in the box). That said, there are loads of code samples for driving the components from (I presume) an Arduino and some other tutorials.Haven't tried the power supply module; but a PCB-mount battery box (bought separately) with a couple of AAs works great as a power source.
C**L
Good value
Decent kit for the price but beware of the Mb102 7-12vin breadboard power supply.Everything else in the kit is fine and this kit is a good starting point for any electronic experimentation.I have used the mb102 with 2 different PSU's: 9v and 12v.9v worked fine and output 5v or 3.3v on the rails as selected. The 12v however toasted the regulators and gave me straight 12v output to the rails, which obviously gave off the wonderful smell of everything plugged into it turning to gas. I have seen similar comments from other people using a 12v supply with this board, so just bare this in mind.Don't get me wrong, it still looks well made and I'll still be ordering another mb102 to use with a 9v source.
A**.
Best value kit for Raspberry Pi users and beginner electronics. ONLINE RESOURCES DON'T WORK
Wow. I received this today and I tell you what, it's like being a pervert in the knicker store! Easily the best value kit for beginner electronics and Raspberry Pi users (and Arduino users but I'm not quite there yet). Now, I just have to figure out what each component is as the only drawback is lack of a pictographic components list which means I have to Google each component to find out what it looks like, however, in doing so I am learning what each component actually does whereas, if there was a pictographic reference, I think I'd simply ignore the components which didn't sound interesting which would create obvious drawbacks, therefore it doesn't lose a star.Note: Not tested for working parts but given the other reviews, I'm quite sure if anything doesn't work it'll probably be down to user error.ONLINE RESOURCES ARE USELESS. YOU CANNOT DOWNLOAD THEM VIA TRADITIONAL METHODS AND THE EFILE MANAGER USED GETS SUCK AT 90% BEFORE THROWING OUT ERRORS.Took three hours. Finally managed to download them.
B**D
Great value set of bits
This little kit is great. I have a Raspberry Pi and now I have a whole load of bits and pieces to make circuits with. I was looking at buying a few switches and LEDs from a well known retail park electronica supplier but the cost was mounting up. This kit gave me 5-10 times the amount of 'stuff' for the same price.There are LEDs of various colours, switches, resistors, light dependant resistors, wires to poke into the bread board and some to connect to the Pi header, as well as a little bread board itself.Also contains a couple of little PCBs and other bits which I haven't really looked at yet, but even if not using these its still great value.Can't recommend it enough, it even comes in a plastic storage box with snap top lid to keep it all together.
S**N
Has a good selection of bits
I have waited a while to write this review. I really like this set as a base for adding other stuff. It is over 20 years since I last played with electronics properly, and I bought this along with an arduino nano, some 555 timers and several 74 logic chips. So far, I (and my children) have been very happy with the set. The box is big enough to add more bits into (arduino nano etc) and the supplied parts are adequate for the enthusiastic amateurs. I did end up buying (and making) some shorter cables, as the longer ones supplied can make the breadboard look messy and difficult to trace; but that is me being a bit picky.
J**E
Would Recommend
Very decent kit for beginners or even advanced electronics hobbyists.It comes with a 74HC595 shift register, which is perfect for understanding the basics of a shift register through making of simple LED projects with the supplied push buttons, also allows for supplementing a microcontroller's I/O pins; 1 I/O pin from the microcontroller can equate to control of up to 8 LED (or any other components).The 4N35 chip is an optocoupler - which isolates the input voltage and output voltage. This allows clean signals being sent, which is especially useful when working with small or accurate measurements.The plentiful number of resistors and jumper cables are serving me well for my current projects.Overall, very wholesome kit!
S**N
Great
Great product easy to use and good value for money
G**A
Needs more info!
I bought it mainly for the breadboard, resistors and LEDs, but would like to know how to identify some of the other parts -e.g. which is the active buzzer and which is the passive? What are the pinouts etc for the power supply module, which component is the thermistor ?
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