Suppliers/Arduino beginner parts

recommended Basic parts for Arduino starters

Arduino, USB cable

• Arduino Arduino Uno Segor Watterott or any clone if are familiar with your choice.
• USB-Cable matching the above Arduino. (Standard USB A / B cable for Arduino Uno) Watterott Segor

The "Glue" to keep things together

• 1 Breadboard Segor or Watterott or Reichelt or Pollin
• 1 Set of alligator Clips (10): buy them anywhere. I have mine from Segor and they are ok. conrad or segor
• 1 Set of Breadboard Jumper wires, flexible cables preferred but solid wire works too.
  • flexible ebay
  • solid: reichelt
  • or make them from bell wire (recommended diameter of the wire: 0.6..0.8mm)

Carbon film Resistors (or other resistors with easy to read colors)

each value 5 times: - save money buying packs of 100 pieces. The links are for packs of 100!

• 220R Conrad Pollin
• 1k Conrad Pollin
• 10k Conrad Pollin
• 100k Conrad Pollin
• 1M Conrad Pollin
• 4M7 Conrad

Note: if you are planning to use many LEDs you probably will need more 220R resistors.

Capacitors

Capacitors, min. 16V - ideally 25V each value one time:

• 10n ceramic or film Segor Reichelt
• 100n ceramic or film Segor Reichelt
• 1µ electrolytic Segor Reichelt
• 10µ electrolytic Segor Reichelt
• 100µ electrolytic Segor Reichelt
• 1000µ electrolytic Segor Reichelt

Conrad online product search could need slight improvements... no links for conrad here - but they have them too.

Buttons

• 5 Cheap push Buttons with 2 or 4 legs that fit in your breadboard (no matter what size):
  • 4 legs - large: Watterott
  • 2 legs - small Pollin

Diodes

• 1x 3.3V Zener Diode: Segor or 10 pieces: Pollin
• 4 x Standard Diodes (1N4148) Segor or Pollin

LEDs

Cheap 5mm LEDs - Color doesn't Matter, 20mA or 10mA doesn't matter if you need them just for testing.

• standard brightness, 10mA yellow: Segor (opaque, yellow housing)
• standard brightness, 10mA green: Segor (opaque, green housing)
• standard brightness, 10mA orange: Segor (opaque, orange housing)
• standard brightness, 10mA red: Segor (opaque, red housing)

or Clear, brighter 5mm LEDs if you are interested in Lighting or building sensors based on light:

• Super bright, green: Segor (clear housing: color can't be determined by eye!)
• Super bright, red 30mA Pollin (clear housing: color can't be determined by eye!)
• Super bright, yellow, 50mA Pollin (clear housing: color can't be determined by eye!)

RGB LED (3 LEDs in one)

• 1 RGB LED (common cathode) Watterott Segor

Transistors

• 3 NPN Transistors (BC548B) Segor or Conrad

less important - but recommendable if you want to play with transistor circuits apart from Arduino:

• 3 PNP Transistors (BC558B) Segor or Conrad

• ULN2003 or ULN2803A (similar) Darlington Transistor Arrays Segor or Pollin

Sensors and Actors : Input and Output

• 1 LDR (Light depending resistor with less than 10k bright resistance @10Lx) Watterott
• 1 or 2 rotary Potentiometers, linear taper, 100k or 10k or 20k - will all do:
  • 20k Pollin
  • 10k Conrad + shaft Conrad
  • 100k conrad + shaft Conrad
• 1 DC Motor Pollin
• 1 Servo Pollin or Conrad or Segor or locally: MHCW, search for article number 500502019 directly from China, via ebay.

• 1 Piezo disk Pollin (sold out) or Segor
• 1 Battery clip Segor or Segor
• 1 9V Battery - buy at local store.

Relais

2 x Relay either 12V (12V power adapter needed, see below at optional parts) or 6(5)V (no additional power needed):

5 or 6 V:

• PowerRelais 6V-100R 1xUM 250VAC-10A 21,5x15,5x18mm Segor, only on request!
• 5V, 1x 2-Way, breadboard compatible: Reichelt
• 1x 2-Way, 5V, Breadboard compatible Reichelt

12V:

• 1 x 2-way, 125V, 12V 700r, Breadboard compatible: Segor
• 1 x 2-way 2A/24VDC 12,6x7,8x10, Segor breadboard compatible (not available in the local store!!!)1

Optional In/Output

• Opto coupler Segor
• Magnet Sensors (Hall)
• Reed-Switch (Magnetic actuated switch) + Magnet
• Tilt Sensor
• Microphone (+ parts for a preamp)
• Thermistor
• analog or digital Temperature Sensor Segor, LM335
• Sharp Distance Sensor
• Parallax Ping distance Sensor
• 3 axis Accelerometer (analog for beginners, digital for advanced users)
• Hall sensors (magnetic fields)
• analog Multiplexer (more analog inputs)
• LED-Matrix + necessary Transistors / Shift registers
• Stepper motor Driver (have to know if unipolar or bipolar!) + Stepper motor (unipolar or bipolar or universal!)
• LCD, Vibration Motors, Electro Magnets, ...
• Shift-Registers (more digital outputs)
• Quarz 16MHz, Voltage regulator 5V (run Atmega on Breadboard without Arduino board)
• 1 Infrared LED and 1 Infrared receiver (36kHz or 38kHz) if you want to control your TV or receive command from a remote

Soldering and other mechanical accessories

• Stripboard or Arduino Prototyping shield
• screw terminal (5.04mm or 2.54mm)
• AC Adapter (Power Supply "Wall Wart" type), 12VDC or better a universal adapter with selectable voltage.
  • for standard applications - using arduino without USB power:Reichelt, Pollin
  • for more power application (larger motors, many external components, stepper motors etc.): Reichelt or Pollin
• Coaxial_power_connector (German: Hohlstecker):