Arduino Starter Kit REVIEW

I think one of the major problems with a lot of guides/tutorials on IOT stuff/maker videos is that people show you how to complete a project but never explain, how/why it works. So then you can never really transfer some of that knowledge to other projects on different boards... For example they will tell you what pins you need to solder/where to plug pins in on your breadboard, to a certain sensor but it's never really explained why you need to use those certain ones, and how it works. I've been messing around with Arduino's, Pi's and other smaller boards like Adafruit's Feather line for almost a year now, and most of the guides I've come across just tell me how to complete the specific project, the scope of the tutorials are very limited and focused on only, like you said "Making it work", not really too much detail into how/why it works. This has led me to have to do A TON of research on my own, which often times leaves me more confused than when I was in the first place. Don't get me wrong there are a ton of good guides/tutorials out there, but a majority of them are just getting something specific to work, and not really going any further than that. If I didn't have a strong desire to constantly learn new things about networking, programming, security, hardware, etc ; I would've probably already given up because nobody wants to just follow other peoples guides, they want to build their OWN projects and show other people: "This is what I made, this is how it functions, this is why it works like that, and this is what you can do to achieve the same end result". /endrant

Robot car? That's big boy Legos! Definitely interested.

Great video. Especially the beginning and the discussion "Why buy a kit instead of buying everything separately?" is something that more people should hear, understand and apply.

In case you didn't know what a man page is, it's the Unix term for command manuals, it explains how a specific command works and what you can do with it.

True story. I bought a budget Arduino kit and it took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out it was the hardware that wasn't working correctly.

Unrelated, Eli has some kickass t-shirts.

You can connect the - & + on both sides so you can put components in the middle

nice idear! I'm glad you started doing tutorials again

So glad to see you're doing classes again!

Great video subscribing 👍🏼