Beginner kit to learn electric circuitry and micro processors

#1

Hi All,

can anyone tell me which kit to buy to learn how to build IoT electronics or other useful things lol
I got alot time on my hands might as well learn something useful

could we do electronics night on VC as long as we have the kit in hand?
thanks

#2

@emuboy may be able to help there :slight_smile:

#3

Hey @RoyM,

There are different kits you can buy, depends on what you want to do and y what’s your level of knowledge about electronics and programing:

A very basic kit would be the BBC Microbit :

but if you want to do some IoT you could have a look at the esp32 based kits, my favourite one it’s the M5Stack :

I’m always happy to help, we could organise something for the electronics night :slight_smile:

#4

Do you have any idea of a project you’d like to build? Learning is easier with a concrete example in mind

#5

I like the Wemos D1 mini, programmed using MicroPython with uPyCraft
It has lots of shields that are pretty easy to use, including a proto shield that you can solder your own creations on
And it’s dead cheap!

#6

Hi guys thanks for the recommendation!

The project I was hoping to make was a wearable Spotify player where I can stream the playlist via WiFi or Bluetooth

Do think I can make this with the kit suggested?

Thanks

#7

You can use a raspberry pi using any opensource spotify software :slight_smile: