{"id":1813,"date":"2011-07-01T22:14:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T05:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2011-08-04T11:39:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T18:39:01","slug":"saving-money-on-arduino-basic-starter-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2011\/07\/saving-money-on-arduino-basic-starter-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Money on Arduino Basic Starter Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several sites are selling Arduino &#8220;basic starter kits&#8221; for around $55.  That&#8217;s not a bad deal, but they tack on around ten dollars in shipping!  These kits generally include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li \/>Arduino UNO board\n<li \/>&#8220;Getting Started with Arduino&#8221; book\n<li \/>Breadboard\n<li \/>Jumpers\n<li \/>USB A to B cable\n<\/ul>\n<p>I put together my own bundle on Amazon, with free shipping, which costs significantly less:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Arduino-UNO-board\/dp\/B004CG4CN4\/ref=pd_bxgy_misc_img_c\">Arduino UNO ($26.95)<\/a>\n<li \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0596155514\/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?ie=UTF8&#038;m=ATVPDKIKX0DER\">&#8220;Getting Started with Arduino&#8221; by Massimo Banzi ($10.39)<\/a>\n<li \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/BB400-Solderless-Plug-BreadBoard-tie-points\/dp\/B0040Z1ERO\/ref=pd_bxgy_misc_img_b\">BB400 Solderless Plug-in Breadboard with Power Rails ($5.50)<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The total price was $42.84, with free shipping.  I saved $22, and the only things missing are a USB cable and some wire jumpers for the breadboard.  I have a $2 roll of solid core wire from the local electronics shop for jumpers, and who doesn&#8217;t have USB cables laying around?<\/p>\n<p>If you really want purpose-built jumper wires, I have read good things about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Breadboard-jumper-wire-70pcs-pack\/dp\/B0040DEI9M\/ref=pd_luc_sbs_01_02_t_lh\">NKC Electronics 70 pack ($4.95 + $4.75 S\/H)<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jumper-Wires-Premium-Male-Pack\/dp\/B004ZRO06Y\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1311717441&#038;sr=8-3\">CanaKit Premium 30-pack ($7.95 + a whopping $12.52 S\/H)<\/a> looks like it has very high-quality, rectangular connectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several sites are selling Arduino &#8220;basic starter kits&#8221; for around $55. That&#8217;s not a bad deal, but they tack on around ten dollars in shipping! These kits generally include: Arduino UNO board &#8220;Getting Started with Arduino&#8221; book Breadboard Jumpers USB &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2011\/07\/saving-money-on-arduino-basic-starter-kit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}