Arduino Make Your UNO Kit is a kit with two boards, one for the microcontroller and the other for audio, and all components required that can be used to learn how to solder and then Arduino programming.
Once soldering and assembly are complete you’ll hopefully get a working Arduino UNO and an audio synthesizer shield. But before you get there, you’ll need to equip yourself with a soldering iron and some soldering tin to solder the components below to the two PCBs.
Package content:
- Arduino Make Your UNO board’s components
- Make Your UNO PCB
- Socket for ATMega328p MCU
- Microchip ATmega328p 8-bit AVR microcontroller
- USB Type-C serial adapter board
- Various 1k Ohm, 10k Ohm. and 1M Ohm resistors
- 3x Ceramic capacitors (22pF)
- 3x Electrolytic capacitors (47uF)
- 7x Polyester capacitors (100nF)
- 1x 1N4007 diode
- 1x 16MHz crystal
- 4x Yellow LEDs, 1x Green LED
- 1x Push-Button
- 1x MOSFET
- 2x I/O connectors
- 6-pin header
- 3.3V LDO and 5V LDO
- Barrel jack connector
- Arduino Audio Synth board’s components
- Audio Synth PCB
- LM386 audio amplifier
- 100k Ohm and 10 Ohm resistors
- 1x Ceramic capacitor (47nF)
- 47uF and 220uF electrolytic capacitors
- Polyester capacitor (100nF)
- 6x 16K Ohm potentiometers with plastic knobs
- 4x connectors pin header
- Spare parts – capacitors, push button, and some LEDs to use with a breadboard or the prototyping section on the Arduino Make Your UNO board
- Mechanical parts – Various spacers, screw nuts, and screws
The Arduino Make Your UNO board also includes a debugging section and a small prototyping section, while you’ll get the six potentiometers and a speaker on the Audio Synth shield.
Arduino provides documentation showing how to solder your kit with videos and a 3D interactive viewer (see video demo below), as well as detailed instructions to program your board to make it work as a synth and make your own music.
The Arduino Make Your UNO Kit has just launched and can be purchased for $58.50 or 55.00 Euros plus shipping.
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So the ATMEGA16U2-MU MCU and related SMT parts that primarily act as the USB/UART bridge are all on a separate floating daughter board which is not in the parts-list. The hardware documentation seems to be there, and should be enough in conjunction with all the usual other documentation.[1] At USD $58.50 the kit seems a bit pricey.[2] But to be fair anything Original Arduino is a bit pricey, you are supporting the community resources as well. For example the basic Arduino Uno Rev3 board (assembled) is USD $27.60.[3] In comparison a Chinese Arduino Uno Clone (CH340G instead of ATMEGA16U2-MU USB/UART) with a socketed 28-PDIP ATmega328P-PU costs just USD $5.73 + $2.32 (Slow) Shipping From China.[4] But with the Clone, nothing goes back to Arduino for support.
not to mention the IDE we probably wouldn’t have without them
It’s a fun kit my son of 17 put together without trouble. All parts well bagged, labeled and the instructions include a 3D view of what goes where. The included sketch gives you a 6 knobs to adjust pitch on 4 tones, tempo control and volume. A very simple and charming sequencer to inspire modification. We REALLY wish this had a headphone jack in addition to or instead of a speaker out of the box.