LIST OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
Arduino Step by Step Getting Started
This page contains lists of required parts and tools for the course "Arduino Step by Step Getting Started" (Kids Learning Space or Bootcamp edition).
The following lists contain the parts and tools necessary to complete the course Arduino Step by Step Getting Started (Kids Learning Space or Bootcamp edition).
Many of the items below are reusable. Items like soldering irons, precision screwdrivers, Arduinos etc will last for many years if you look after them. Other items like resistors, spacers and potentiometers come in packs that contain sufficient numbers to last for many projects.
The items in these lists are provided in an effort to make it easier for our students to find the parts and tools they need. While we take care to find reliable Amazon sellers, we cannot be responsible for problems in their supply chain or fulfillment. Sellers may run out of stock at any time, or shipments may be lost in transit. For issues like these, or for warranty claims, please contact the seller or Amazon directly.
If you do not live in the US, UK or Germany, or the Amazon stores that we provide links to below do not deliver to your location, consider using a freight forwarding service like Shipito. You can ship your shopping to them, and they will forward to you, anywhere in the world. This is useful in case, for at least some of the items in your shopping list, Amazon will not ship to addresses outside the US.
In addition to Amazon, our friends at SunFounder have kindly taken the time to find the course hardware in their inventory and provided direct links to the relevant product pages. SunFounder can ship their products anywhere in the world.
If you are working on the free introductory course for the Arduino, you will need items 1.1, 1.4, 1.9, 1.10, 2.1 and 2.2.
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1. To complete this project, you will need the following parts:
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Arduino Uno, Genuine |
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Arduino Uno, Clone |
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6x6x6mm Momentary Push Button Switch |
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10K Ohm Breadboard Trim Potentiometer |
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UV sensor |
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RGB color sensor |
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RGB LED |
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Single color 5mm LEDs |
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Assorted resistors (we'll mostly use 220Ω, 1κΩ and 10κΩ resistors) |
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Photoresistor |
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DHT22 temperature and humidity sensor |
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TMP36 Analog Temperature sensor |
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MCP9808 High Accuracy I2C Temperature Sensor |
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Thermistor temperature sensor |
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BMP180 or MBP280 environment sensor |
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ADXL335 accelerometer |
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Passive Infrared Motion sensor |
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Ultrasonic distance sensor |
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Analog sound sensor |
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Arduino Compatible Microphone |
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Passive buzzer |
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2x16 characters LCD screen |
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2x16 characters LCD screen with I2C backpack adaptor |
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LCD Shield Kit w/ 16×2 Character Display with buttons |
2. To complete this project you will need these tools:
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Mini breadboard |
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Male-male Jumper wires |
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Multimeter |
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Wire cutter |
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Tweezers |
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Precision screwdrivers |
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Soldering iron and solder (check mains power requirements for your location) |
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Solder pump (to help in fixing soldering errors) |
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PCB holder (to make soldering easier) |
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Copper sponge |
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Tip tinner |
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To complete this project you will need these resources:
- Arduino IDE | Download
- Computer (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)
- Access to the Internet
- Access to Facebook
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About this parts list
This list was out of date the moment I published it. Every link depends on a marketplace and a seller, and those change constantly: listings vanish, stock rotates, sellers close, part numbers get reused. The list is here to help you identify what you need. It is not a guarantee that a given item will be available on any given day.
So use it this way: treat each entry as the name and specification of a part, then search for that same thing on eBay, Amazon, AliExpress, or your local supplier. In most cases you will find several equivalents, sometimes cheaper or closer to home than the one I linked. If you have made a real attempt and still can't find something, ask me and I will help.
Remember what you are building. These are open hardware projects made from off the shelf components, not a sealed product from a single vendor. Sourcing parts in a fluid marketplace is part of the work, and it is a skill worth having.
Last Updated 9 months ago ago.