Kit feedback

Official Hardware Kits Starter Kit
1

I purchased the starter kit.

  1. The font size of the book is too small. The breadboard is also too small for me to read but I can live with that.

  2. We need a PDF of the book. People who copy will always copy. Many people are decent and will buy the kit. In fact, most people who are buying a kit, don't know much and aren't the type to go looking for a free way to assemble a kit. ==> If you can put together a kit, you don't need the kit. <==

  3. The resistor band diagram should be a separate laminated card. I don't want to have to open a book and go to a specific page to see this.

  4. They didn't include enough red and black jumper cables.

  5. They should put each type of part in a plastic bag and staple it to a card that explains what it is. e.g. Resistors in a plastic bag stapled to a card that says: "Resistors x ohm - reduces current, blah blah" or "LEDs - light emitting diodes.", etc...

2

Agreed! I'm having a lot of trouble with it. Also the page introducing the project has a list of what you need...but not how many! Since it's usually on a separate page from the diagram, which doesn't have any identification of the parts, I have to keep flipping back and forth: [Diagram] Okay so here I need a... [flip back] 220 ohm resistor... [flip back to the diagram] and I need three of them.

It's little things, sure, but it's one more stumbling block for beginners on a starter kit! Starter kits need to be idiot-proof.