Make a videos from Starter Kit.

Hi everybody.

I have bought the Starter Kit and I feel enthusiasm about it, it is my first time with Arduino. I have a experience in programming. I need the Arduino Uno to my university studies to develop a course and I had an idea: Make a videos of the Arduino Projects Book, explain them, do more things into each project and explained, etc. The idea is not do each project from scratch because the book itself help with that, and the principal core of this idea is take a experience about make educational videos. So, my question is: ¿Is there a problems to realize this idea? Like a legal problems, copyright problems, etc.

I hope have explained my idea in a good way. My English is bad, sorry about it.

Thanks.

The contents of the Starter Kit book is definitely under copyright. Arduino does not publish this content online so I think they want it to only be available to the people who buy the official kit, rather than the people who buy the many kits manufactured by other companies who don't contribute to the Arduino project in any way.

I'm not a lawyer, so I can't advise you on the legality of sharing the contents of the Starter Kit book. However, if it's done in a way that makes it so that people no longer need to buy the Starter Kit from Arduino to get that content, I'd say it's clearly not the right thing to do ethically. Although I'm very much a proponent of sharing information freely, I also think it's especially important to respect intellectual property in the case of a company that already does embrace the open source philosophy so much. Arduino gives away the source code for much of their software, the design files for their hardware, and provides a ton of public documentation. So when they decide there are some specific bits of content they want to sell, I think we should respect their wishes.

That said, the heart of the project book is the sketches, which are all provided freely with the open source Arduino IDE (File > Examples > 10.StarterKit_Basic, and are clearly marked "public domain". So feel free to share those sketches all you like. Between that code and content you create yourself for the video, I think you could create something very useful. I especially like your idea of expanding on the projects!

Hey macksam, welcome !

I agree with pert about the expanding thing.
Copying a sketch and see if it will work is great, but one will really start learning when they change the code to do something slightly different and find out why it does, or (hopefully) not do what they expected.
You'd have to find an example sketch that will allow multiple changes, show one of those, and challenge the viewer to work out some different changes to that, and each of the example sketches.