Great price on an Arduino starter kit

Mark Frauenfelder 3:30 pm Tue Aug 20, 2019

This is the least expensive Arduino-clone starter kit I've seen. It's just [amazon_link asins='B07BGS524V' template='PriceLink' store='boingboing' marketplace='US' link_id='626c1229-2ad6-4252-a7c8-fc55a1155ae1'] on Amazon, and comes with an Arduino Uno clone, a solderless breadboard, resistors, LEDs, jumper wires, pushbuttons, and a lot more.

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