Best Arduino kits Arduino Starter Kit This kit features the Arduino Uno Rev 3 microcontroller, and it includes over 100 components along with a 170-page guidebook that details 15 engaging projects.

Arduino’s Plug and Make Kit lets your hacking imagination run wild, sans solder Daisy-chain tiny boards into weather stations, game controllers, and way more.

For example, take Bluetooth game controllers. Sure, you could make your own with a microcontroller, some buttons, and a couple joysticks.

A new game engine developed by Scott Porter allows the classic ’80s game Manic Miner, originally for Sinclair ZX Spectrum computers, to be played on an Arduino UNO.