Arduino Duemilanove Starter Kit by Arduino
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Digital camera reviews of Arduino Duemilanove Starter Kit
Digital camera Review: Arduino Uno - Good starter
Summary: 4 Stars
Arduino Uno, Not Duemilanove as the description states.
Overall I'm happy with the starter kit. Just be aware that you won't get too far before needing more. It'll either get your wet your appetite or turn you off. Most likely the former if you're already looking at it.
Digital camera Review: Arduino is awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
I heard about the Arduino through one of my friends on fonebug.com. I had to see what it was all about. It's totally awesome! I've had it for only a couple weeks now and have built all kinds of cool stuff. If you have any kind of background in programming, the scripting language is a piece of cake. And even if you don't there are tons of tutorials to help you along. I recommend the Arduino to anyone who is even remotely creative.Digital camera Review: Decent starter kit, but there are better options.
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a decent starter kit, but be aware that there are better options out there. Adafruit Industries offers a basic kit like this for a $5 more with better parts as well as a tutorial and a deluxe kit with a breadboard and prototyping shield, along with a tutorial, parts, etc for only $20 more. Now they both ship with the Arduino Uno.
I recommend they drop the price on this one, or throw in more jumper wires, etc to boost the value. I am not associated with Adafruit Industries, I just like the way they make tutorials and have all open source products. I wish they would update this to show that it now comes with the Uno.
Digital camera Review: Excellent starting point
Summary: 4 Stars
Hacktronics starter kit is a good inexpensive way to start getting familiar with the Arduino. There are other more expensive kits available with more items included, but if you are unsure of your level of interest or ability this is a good place to start. I already have a fairly well supplied 'junkbox' so this was adequate to get me started.
The only issue I ran into was with the version of software I downloaded. I went to http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software and downloaded the Linux version listed near the top of the page. I would have figured it would be the most current version, but what I got was arduino-013 and appearantly that was the wrong version for the Duemilanove with m328p. After a week of trying to troubleshoot it with no success and asking several people what the problem may have been I ended up back on IRC Freenode #arduino and after a brief conversation with TheMadEngineer. I found that I had the wrong version of software. I quickly downloaded arduino-015 and all is well. For the sake of information I have yet to get the Windows version to run. When you try to open it in XP it just goes off into oblivion and never does anything. It may be the machine it is on, but it was a complete waste of time to download.
Digital camera Review: Extremely responsive and helpful
Summary: 5 Stars
The hacktronics guys are extremely responsive. They answered all my email questions promptly. A guy called Mark was extremely helpful. I recommend them highly.