Starting with buying an Arduino Starter Kit
I'm not one of the early adopters of Arduino. I did however, when I was a student in Masters for Electronics her in Belgium in the 90's, program in assembler the Motorola 68000 and the Intel 8088 microprocessors. So this Arduino thing shouldn't be that much of a challenge, right?From day one I've started working I've been a Windows System Engineer. Server systems, server hardware, data centers, recovery, SLA's, powershell, Active Directory nah no much secrets in that world for me anymore. Looking for a challenge, I was quite intrigued by the raspberry PI, such a small device running an OS, that has to be fun.
When thinking of a first concept that I wanted to do with the Raspberry, I was searching for a battery enabled PI with a long lifetime, and clearly discovered this was not what I was looking for; a PI is a board that has a low power consumption compared to PC's, but it's not suited for long time battery usage (without recharging daily). Read more here.
Colleagues at work showed me into the Arduino board, which is more suited (but not with an OS) for battery powered tasks (like sensing a door opening).
Searching the internet resulted in an overload of information! This Arduino thing is quite adopted with a huge community. Nice. But where can I buy this?
Some e-shops in the Benelux:
- https://www.gotron.be/ (also have real shops)
- https://www.hobbyelectronica.nl/ (contains even pieces of code, next day delivery)
- https://www.kiwi-electronics.nl/
- http://www.conrad.be (correct but not that fast and sometimes expensive)
Others that are interesting:
I've bought my first starter kit via e-Bay from an Italian seller for € 39 (shipping included): "kit starter uno per arduino starter kit one for Arduino 970714" . It is the lowest price for a kit I've found with a good scoring on e-Bay (100%).
Okay, lets "start"...
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