For my recent Arduino class, I bought a couple of inexpensive, Chinese-made, Arduino starter kits off Amazon. They included an Arduino Uno clone, a breadboard board, some components, and some jumper wires.
Overall, they were a pretty good deal for less than $18. Unfortunately, the breadboard was kind of poor quality. One of the students had a real time getting one of the experiements to work, and after quite a bit of troubleshooting, we determined that the jumper wires were just not making good contact with the breadboard.
After the class, I wrote up a review on Amazon:
” Lacks sensors, breadboard quality poorI just bought a couple of these for a class I was teaching. These were very inexpensive, but I was kind disappointed. First of all, the quality of the breadboard seeemed to be very poor. One of the students had problems getting his experiments to work because the components and wires didn’t make good connections. Also, I would have liked to have a temperature sensor and maybe a motor, so we could have done those experiments in class. I’ll be buying a more complete kit next time and maybe trying a different vendor as well.”.
Yesterday, I got the following email from the vendor:
Thank you for taking time to leave your review and letting us know the problem. We are very sorry for the inconvenience this situation has caused you to this point. We’ve already designed a new breadboard which is much better then before. Would you like to have a try?
Please don’t feel unhappy, we will try our best to help you solve all of your problems.Looking forward to your kind reply. Please give us a chance to make things right for you.Panda
Elegoo Support Team
I am going to give them a chance to make it right. I’ve replied, asking them to send one of their new breadboards. I’ll try it out and let you know.