Course Kit:

USF Students: All enrolled students need to purchase the Course Kit. The current price of the kit is $135 (this includes $15 import tariffs that were introduced by the Trump administration in 2019 and are currently collected by US customs for the US treasury).

How to get your kit: The IEEE Student Chapter will as usual distribute the kits. Visit https://edu.ieee.org/us-usf/kit/ for more information.

Note: If you already bought the course kit from the IEEE, you do not need to get it a second time. Just let the IEEE know that you already have it to get Homework 1 credit.

The Course Kit kits contain the following items:

1) Arduino Kit:

In class we will do experiments with the Arduino platform, and learn how to control motors, LEDs, switches, motion sensors etc...Each provided Arduino kit contains the parts listed here. Most of the components are featured in the tutorial videos posted in the lesson plan. There you can also find the latest versions of the Arduino sketches used in the tutorials as a starting point for your own projects.

We have also provided a few CAD files of the parts included in the kit.  These can be found here. More models can be found on grabcad.com.

If you use an Arduino nano bought on ebay for your projects, the cheap ones now have a CH340 or CH341 USB interface. This interface does not run with the standard Arduino drivers. If your computer does not recognize the board, you may need to install the CH340 driver.
Install this for Mac:

CH340 Installer for Mac.zip
File Size:	115 kb
File Type:	zip

Download File

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And this one for PCs:

ch341ser_windows_driver.exe
File Size:	243 kb
File Type:	exe

Download File

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Also note that some of these Arduino Nanos do not have the 'bootloader' installed. You need to use an AVR programmer to install the bootloader via the Arduino IDE. This video explains how to do it.

2) Additional Components

A list of the additional components is posted here.