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Purchasing additional supplies
The equipment in the starter kit provided to each school is designed to help get students started, should you want to purchase additional equipment a list of suppliers can be found here.
- Electronics Kits
Arduino Grove Beginner Kit (as supplied in the starter pack) can be purchased from Seed Studio, note these prices are in USD, or they can be purchased locally from Core Electronics
The Duinotech kits with Arduino Uno Boards (as supplied in the starter pack) can be purchased from Electus
If your school is still using the Duinnotech kits with Arduino Mega boards and wish to purchase more, these are available from Jaycar
Note: Purchasing multiple kits or shopping around can help reduce the price further.
Additional components such as ultrasonic or infra red sensors can be purchased from Altronics.
https://www.altronics.com.au/p/z6322-ultrasonic-distance-sensor-breakout-for-arduino/
https://www.altronics.com.au/p/z6382-passive-infra-red-pir-movement-detector-breakout-for-arduino/
Note: Purchasing multiple kits/components or shopping around can help reduce the price further.
If schools are interested in soldering and learning about electronics components a variety of Electronics Kits can be purchased from UniSA Outreach. We have kits including Game 4, which contains 16 functions built into the board and is a great entry level board, over engineered to cope with backwards LEDs and other common errors to ensure the students get the kit functioning. We also have more advanced kits including Music Matcher which creates an octave of capacitive touch keys allowing simple tunes to be played, as well as in built memory and reaction rate games.
UniSA also offers a short online course learning about Arduino coding. For information about this course or to enrol students go to this link:
https://study.unisa.edu.au/services-for-schools/experiences/specialist-experiences/stem/
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