ELEGOO Electronics Fun Kit

This is one of those star buys. If your just starting out on crcuit building or module fun like arduino or esp32 this is the kit for you. I bought it to top up all my needs for my esp32 projects and the value is perfect for what you get. You get everything to get you up and running on your projects. Totally recommend!

Well I am a techie and have played about with the Arduino for a while. I was not at my normal location, so needed a breadboard and bits to build up a circuit for use with a Genuino UNO and ordered this kit has it contained the main stuff I needed at a good price. It arrived promptly and I had no trouble building my circuit with some other components I already had. Although I use the Arduino to power the circuit normally, the breadboard power supply module is very useful for testing. Alasdair McCormick mentions "They even have a great tutorial website to teach you if like me you don’t know what your doing". Well I am not sure about that, as I could not find that type of tutorial on the Elegoo website (perhaps they did have that sort of thing posted originally, but took it down for some reason?). They do have a zip file available for the kit (along with others) in the directory "tutorial" (added with a slash after website name). You can either bring up that URL and use "Save Link As.." to save the zip, or from the website Download page (click Download menu item to get there); scroll down and then click the picture for the "Elegoo Upgraded Electronics Fun Kit - E3" and you should get a pop-up dialog box with the "Save File" option. The zip file contains 17 PDF files which give you datasheets covering each type of item in the kit. The information may be too complex for some people, but at least you can check the spec and requirements of each component (e.g. from the "White LED Datasheets.pdf, you can confirm that Super-Green LEDs are Part Number: RL5-G8020 and are maximum 4.0V forward voltage and maximum 20 mA Continuous Forward Current). I was slightly amused with the component pictures and descriptions inside the lid of the box. They include a picture of what is described as a "104pF Ceramic Capacitor 10PCS). Well, someone slipped up there! The 104 marking on a ceramic capacitor should be interpreted as follows: Two significant digits followed by the number of zeros. example: 104 = 100 000 pF = 100 nF = 0.1 uF (where my u should be the micro symbol). so NOT 104pF, lol. The datasheets are good, just someone messed up when doing the inside lid information! I will not knock of 1 star for that though! In conclusion, this is a great value kit and well worth the money. The technical information is available for it at the time of writing anyway. I may well buy another one as I can never have enough breadboards, LEDs, links etc. I will also consider other kits made by them.

This is a decent kit at a good price. I have since had bought for me some more Elegoo breadboards and the quality is *OK*, however the breadboard that came with the kit I have real difficulties inserting wires into certain tracks - in particular one of the power rails. This can be quite frustrating. Components wise, there's a good selection. I especially like the included power supply, which is very useful. I'd suggest maybe including a 555 timer, or a universal logic gate (e.g. 74HC00 NAND) as new hobbyists will be able to make good use of these. UPDATE - Elegoo's customer service (in particular Camille) have been brilliant in dealing with the breadboard issue - they sent a new breadboard, which has better connections, and also a free ribbon jumper cable. For the customer service alone I'd recommend this company, and as I've said, the kit is good value too. One other thing - the kit states that the two ceramic capacitors are 22pF and 104pF. However they are in fact 22pF and 0.1uF. The 104 printed on the larger cap means 100000pF, which is 10nF, or 0.01uF. The code 104 means "10" with four additional zeroes in picofarads.

Great value. Whole lot of useful components for not a lot. Great for getting into experimentation with microcontrollers

Jam packed full of fun and discovery! ^_^

Very good array of electrical components which was a top up for the 2560 kit.

Great starter kit for introduction to electronics. Contains all the parts required to demonstrate electronic principals.

Grate starting kit but but no instructions and no datasheets and no power connector