A wifi-enabled, IOT starter kit to learn electronics.
Designed by West Side Electronics in United States of America
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The seller may be offering an improved version or it may be hanging out on the beach, enjoying the retired life.
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Note that the ULCEK is not for sale, it is a personal project which I hope can allow others a simple and affordable introduction to electronics. You can still build one yourself and it is still suppo…
Read More…Note that the ULCEK is not for sale, it is a personal project which I hope can allow others a simple and affordable introduction to electronics. You can still build one yourself and it is still supported by tutorials at http://ulcek.com
The Ultra Low Cost Electronics Kit (ULCEK) is a electronics kit that combines the best that hobby electronics has to offer today in a low-cost, project-oriented package targeted at anyone who is interested in getting into electronics. This package is compatible on the Arduino IDE, one of the world's most popular platform for hobby electronics.
I always wanted a kit to get started in electronics. However when I bought an Arduino starter kit, it felt directionless and lost interest soon after. My next foray into electronics was actually a project to build an alarm clock, and that went far more successfully.
There are a million electronics kits on the Internet. However they are based on a simplified interpretation of electronics. You can't really use these kits for anything else other than what they were meant for. The ULCEK uses real-world electronics to teach concepts. So with the parts you get, you can buy more of them at Radioshack or online, and with the skills you learn, you can start using real electronics immediately.
The tutorials are written in a friendly and approachable format. The target audience for this kit is someone with no knowledge of electronics or programming.
The first series of tutorials Lightbeans has been written. For this project, you will build a light-activated nightlight with the ULCEK kit.
All material except for the housing of the light is in the kit. More instructions can be found in the Lightbeans Tutorial.
It is a wifi-enabled Arduino IDE compatible board. That means that with a few steps, you can start using it with the Arduino IDE, one of the most popular platforms for programming microcontrollers.
So I can build my own kit?
Yes. With that kit you can follow along with the instructions that I have provided on the website. All I ask when you use these tutorials is to provide feedback so that I may improve them for others.
I built my own kit, but something isn't working!
Sorry, I am unable to provide support for kits that I don't sell personally. The Internet is a great resource for solutions!
I want to build a kit for the classroom. Can you help me?
Yes. Please contact me at info@ulcek.com.
If you have more questions regarding the kit you can send them to info@ulcek.com
