ELECFREAKS Raspberry Pi Starter Kit, Primary Raspberry Pi Pico Projects for Beginner

The Pi Pico starter kit arrived when promised and was as described, intact, and complete. I have not had an opportunity to use it yet but expect it will function as needed. I plan to use it in conjunction with the 'TinyML Cookbook' from Packt publishing. The kit provides the minimum set of components and jumpers in a convenient and reasonably priced package along with the Pi. I have purchased the other two required processor boards from other sources. Dealing with Elecfreaks was painless and satisfactory.

I enjoyed the price and its great to have the Raspberry Pi Pico (W) to play with. It's great that the kit provides the breadboard, jumpers, buttons, LEDS and the light sensor to play with along with a small "book" to follow along with to go through a few initial experiments. Again, great price (It was less than $14 WITH shipping, after the discount) The packing was great ... small plastic box and everything fit in well (though I almost didn't see the seperate Pico W pack lying in the bottom of the package) ... BUT I DID come across an issue - It's nice that you gave the option to select the W version of the Pico, so I could use the Wireless features, BUT it wasn't the WH version with the header pins, though luckily I had some header pins around and was able to solder them on the board. Also, I would suggest making the book a little larger and replacing some of the LEDs with another photosensor or maybe even a small piezo speaker etc. All of the resistors were 100 ohms, and making a few of them 1K or 10K or maybe adding a few capacitors, and more experiment to explore to help allow kids to explore more possibilities. I almost gave this a 4 Star review, but the missing header pins was almost a "game stopper" for a starter kit, and I believe this package could be improved by swapping some components and adding a few more experiements to play with in that book. Overall, I'm happy to have received it and I would give it 4 stars, except that the Pico came without header pins, and for a "starter kit" (possibly for a child) that would be "fail". Thanks, and let's see what I can do with this Pico :) Best wishes

Exactly as described. Thank you!