15 Best Arduino Starter Kits Reviewed in 2023

Are you confused to select the best arduino starter kit? Here we provide a list of best Arduino starter kits.You can choose the best one according to your requirement.Here we have categorized this list into 3 categories i.e for beginners ,advanced(advanced kits include more sensor ,advanced arduino boards etc which requires more efforts for a novice to work with it) and basic(i.e kits without arduino board). Let’s go into the post without wasting time.

Here is the list of top 15 arduino starter kits. These are the things you should know before buying  an arduino starter kit.

1.Different Number of components : Check the different number of components included in the kit. This does not mean quantity of components which is generally mentioned. There is no use to have same resistors or capacitors in hundred numbers. Generally, advanced components helps you exploring new projects.

2.Budget : Check for budget friendly kits. If you are inexperienced there may be chance of damaging the components.So it is always better to start with less economical kits.In this post we tried our best to give you the best arduino starter kits in a low budget.

3.Compatibility : Check whether the components and boards available in a kit are compatible with other boards also.As arduino is open many companies have come up with their own boards.Check the components in your kit are compatible to other kits also.

Considering all the above points below kits are selected.

1) Arduino Starter Kit

This starter kit is from Arduino. A original is worth more than a copy, so, this kit stand first in the race.This kit has 800+ reviews. As this kit is from arduino itself no need to think about the quality. This kit is available in different languages. Here we provide official English kit. This kit comes with 170 pages PDF, which gives 15 fun projects. This is best selling kit. If you want to buy a similar one at low cost then scroll down

List of Components in the kit :

1. Arduino Projects Book
2. Arduino UNO
3. USB cable
4. Breadboard 400 Pins-1
5. Easy-to-assemble wooden base-1
6. 9V battery snap-1
7. Solid core jumper wires -70
8. Stranded jumper wire -1
9. Photo transistors -6
10. 10KΩ Potentiometers-6
11. Push buttons -10
12. Temperature sensor TMP36-1
13. Tilt sensor-1
14. Alphanumeric LCD (16×2 character display)-1
15. LEDs (1 x Bright White, 1 x RGB, 8 x Red, 8 x Green, 8 x Yellow and 3 x Blue)
16. Small DC motor (6/9V)-1
17. Small servo motor-1
18. Piezo capsule-1
19. H-bridge motor driver L293D-1
20. Optocouplers (4N35) -2
21. MOSFET Transistors(IRF520)-2
22. Capacitors -(5 x 100nF, 3 x 100µF, 5 x 100pF)
23. Diodes 1N4007 -5
24. Transparent gels (red, green, blue)
25. 40 pin male header strip
26. Resistors -(20 x 220Ω, 5 x 560Ω, 5 x 1KΩ, 5 x 4.7Ω, 10 x 10KΩ, 5 x 1MΩ, 5 x 10MΩ)

2) ELEGOO UNO Super Starter Kit

The next kit in the race is Elegoo UNO super starter kit. Elegoo made their own clones to arduino,those are compatible with arduino. You can check the difference between Arduino and Elegoo .In this post  there are 4 Elegoo starter kits for beginners and advanced. 

Super starter kit  is one of the best economical starter kits for beginners from Elegoo. This kit has 2000+ reviews. There are very few complaints about the missing components, but don’t worry customer care is very supportive.

This kit comes along with a PDF tutorial containing 22 lessons. The LCD module provided has pin header .It includes power supply module, 9v battery.

List of Components in the kit : 

1. ELEGOO UNO R3 Controller Board– 1
2. LCD1602 Module (with pin header) – 1
3. Breadboard Expansion Board – 1
4. Power Supply Module – 1
5. Joystick Module – 1
6. IR Receiver – 1-
7. Servo Motor (SG90) – 1
8. Stepper Motor – 1
9. ULN2003 Stepper Motor Driver Board – 1
10. Ultrasonic Sensor – 1
11. DHT11 Temperature and Humidity Module – 1
12. 9V Battery with DC – 1
13. Jumper Wire – 65
14. USB Cable – 1
15. Active Buzzer – 1
16. Passive Buzzer – 1
17.  Potentiometer – 1
18.  5V Relay – 1
19.  Breadboard – 1
20.  Remote – 1
21.  Tilt Switch – 1
22.  Button (small) – 5
23.  1 digit 7-segment Display – 1
24.  4 digit 7-segment Display – 1
25.  LED(Yellow/Blue/Green/White/Red) – 5each
26.  Photo resistor – 2
27. Thermistor – 1
28. Diode Rectifier (1N4007) – 2
29. NPN Transistor (PN2222) – 2
30. IC 74HC595 (serial to serial/parallel IC) – 1
31. Resistor(10,100,220,330,1k,5.1k,1k,10k,100k 1M) – 10 each
32.  Female-to-male DuPont Wire – 10

3)ELEGOO Mega Most Complete Ultimate Starter Kit

This is another kit from elegoo. It has nearly 1100+ reviews. This  is an advanced kit with sensors and modules. The main controller board included here is elegoo MEGA.MEGA is an advanced board in terms of  i/o pins, RAM, memory. When you want to explore more advanced projects requiring like robotics, you can choose this kit.

There are some complaints about the working of board. But overall all the components quality and quantity is good. This kit includes PDF with 35 lessons.

List of Components in the kit :

1. Elegoo mega controller Board-1
2. Power supply-1
3. Proto type Board-1
4. Bread board
5. Sound sensor module-1
6. HC-SR501 PIR Motion Sensor-1
7. Ultrasonic Sensor
8. GY-521 Module
9.  MAX7219 Module
10. 1pcs Water Lever Sensor 
11. 1pcs RTC Module 
12. 1pcs RC522 RFID Module
13. 1pcs Rotary Encoder Module 
14. 1pcs IR Receiver Module 
15. 1pcs Joystick Module 
16. 1pcs Keypad Module
17. 1pcs LCD1602 Module ( with pin header) 
18. Dot matrix display
19. 1pcs DHT11 Temperature and Humidity Module
20. 1pcs Remote
21. 1pcs ULN2003 Stepper Motor Driver Board 
22. 1pcs Servo Motor (SG90) 
23. 1pcs Stepper Motor
24. 1pcs 3V Servo Motor 
25. 7-segment display(1-digit,4 digit)-1 each
26. USB Cable
27. 1pcs 5V Relay
28. LEDs(Red/Blue/Green/White/Yellow)- 5 each
29. Resistors(10,100,220,330,1k,2k,5.1k,10k,100k,1M)-10 each
30. Potentiometer-2
31. Female-to-male DuPont Wire-20
32. Tilt Switch -1
33. Button (small) -5
34. IC L293D -1
35. IC 74HC595-1 
36. Active Buzzer 
37. Passive Buzzer 
38. Jumper Wire-65
39. 9V Battery -1
40. NPN Transistor (PN2222)-5
41. NPN Transistor (S8050)-5
42. Diode Rectifier (1N4007) -5
43. Electrolytic Capacitor (10UF 100UF)- 2pcs 
44. RGB LED-1
45. Ceramic Capacitor(22pf,104) -5each
46.  Photo resistor -2
47.  Thermistor-1

4) ELEGOO UNO Most Complete Starter Kit

This is another advanced kit from Elegoo. It has 470+ reviews. The above advanced kit from elegoo and this one are same. The only difference is that controller board. Here Elegoo UNO R3 is the controller board used.

As usual with all the elegoo products, there are some problems like missing components and problems with the breadboard.

 It is compatible with arduino IDE. It has a PDF explaining the use of all components with more than 30 lessons. The modules are pre-soldered ,so easy to wire up and saves a lot of time.

The components provided in this are of high quality. It has 60 kinds of components ​

1. LEDs(white/Yellow/Blue/Green/Red)-5 each 
2. RGB LED-1
3. 22pf Ceramic Capacitor(22PF,104)-5 each
4. Photoresistor-2
5. Thermistor-1
6. Diode Rectifier (1N4007)-5
7. Electrolytic Capacitor(10UF,100UF)-2
8. NPN Transistor (PN2222)-5
9. NPN Transistor (S8050)-5
10. Tilt Switch-1
11. Button (small)-5
12. 7-segment Display(1 digit,4 digit)-1 each
13. Sound Sensor Module-1
14. LCD1602 Module (with pin header)-1
15. IC L293D-1
16. IC 74HC595-1
17. Active Buzzer-1
18. Passive Buzzer-1
19. RTC Module-1
20. DHT11 Temperature and Humidity Module-1
21. Potentiometer-2
22. Rotary Encoder Module-1
23. Joystick Module
24. Keypad Module
25. 5V Relay
26. IR Receiver Module
27. UNO R3 Controller Board
28. Breadboard
29. Servo Motor (SG90)
30. Stepper Motor
31. ULN2003 Stepper Motor Driver Board
32. Prototype Expansion
33. Power Supply Module
34. HC-SR501 PIR Motion Sensor
35. Ultrasonic Sensor
36. GY521 Module
37. 3V Motor
38. MAX7219 Module
39. Remote
40. 9V 1A Power Supply
41. Jumper Wire-65
42. Water Lever Sensor
43. USB Cable
44. 9V Battery with DC
45. RC522 RFID Module
46. Resistor (10R,100R,220,330,1k,2k,5.1k,10k,100k,1M)-10 each
47. Female-to-male Dupont Wire-20

5) Vilros Arduino Uno Ultimate Starter Kit

This kit has few components with which you can make good projects. This is beginners kit. This kit has 900+ reviews. There is very good feedback about manual attached. No negative feedback about faulty components.

It comes with a 72 page manual explaining the use of each component included in it and arduino programming. This kit has an arduino board and breadboard holder ,allowing you to connect other components  easily.

List of Components in the kit :

1. Arduino Uno Rev 3-1
2. Arduino & Breadboard Holder-1
3. Shift Register-1
4. P2N2222A Transistors-2
5. 1N4148 Diodes-2
6. DC Motor with wires-1
7. Small Servo-1
8. 5V Relay-1
9. TMP36 Temp Sensor-1
10. 1X 6′ USB Cable-1
11. Jumper Wires-65
12. Photocell-1
13. Tri-color LED-1
14. Red LED-10
15. yellow LED-10
16. 10K Trimpot-1
17. Piezo Buzzer-1
18. Big 12mm Buttons-2
19. 330 Resistors-45
20. 10K Resistors-45

6)REXQualis Super Starter Kit

This starter kit is from RExqualis. It  has  350+ reviews. This is another best advanced kit at this price. very few complaints about working of components. You can get  most of the components to  do basic projects.

This kit is economical and contains all components required for a beginner. It consists of UNO R3 controller board ,an Arduino clove by rexqualis. you can make 23 projects using this kit. kit consists of 30 kinds of components. This kit has 9v 1 amp power adapter.

List of Components in the kit :

1. 1pcs UNO R3 Controller Board
2. 1pcs Breadboard Expansion Board
3. 1pcs Power Supply Module
4. 1pcs LCD1602 Module (with pin header)
5. 1pcs Membrane Switch Module
6. 1pcs 9V 1A Adapter
7. 1pcs Joystick Module
8. 1pcs Servo Motor (SG90)
9. 1pcs Stepper Motor
10. 1pcs 3-6V Motor
11. 1pcs Fan Blade
12. 1pcs ULN2003 Stepper Motor Driver Board
13. 1pcs Ultrasonic Sensor
14. 1pcs DHT11 Temperature and Humidity Module
15. 1pcs IR Receiver
16. 1pcs Battery Clip with Male DC
17. 1pcs 65 Jumper Wire
18. 20pcs F/M Dupont Wire
19. 1pcs USB Cable
20. 1pcs Breadboard
21. 1pcs Active Buzzer
22. 1pcs Passive Buzzer
23. 1pcs Potentiometer
24. 1pcs 5V Relay
25. 1pcs Remote
26. 1pcs Tilt Switch
27. 1pcs 1 digit 7-segment Display
28. 1pcs 4 digit 7-segment Display
29. 2pcs Photoresistor
30. 2pcs Thermistor
31. 2pcs Diode Rectifier (1N4007)
32. 2pcs NPN Transistor (PN2222)
33. 1pcs IC 74HC595
34. 1pcs IC L293D
35. 5pcs Button (small)
36. 1pcs RGB LED
37. 5pcs Yellow LED
38. 5pcs Blue LED
39. 5pcs Green LED
40. 5pcs Red LED
41. 120pcs Resistor

7) Kuman Complete Starter Kit

This kit has 290+ reviews. This is beginners starter kit. This kit has complaints on quality of the components.+

This is another starter kit with reliable components. The components quality is good. The older version of this kit does not include any user guide. But this is an upgraded version. So it includes a CD for project.

List of Components in the kit :

1. 1.Kuman UNO R3 development boardx1
2. USB cable x1
3. Prototype extension board x1
4. Mini breadboard x1
5. 5V stepper motor x1
6. 2003 stepper motor driver board x1
7. Red LED x5
8. Green LED x5
9. Yellow LED x5
10. Vibration Sensor x2
11. Flame sensor x1
12. LM35 temperature sensor x1
13. Infrared receiver x1
14. Photoresistor x3
15. Key cap x 4
16. Key switch x4
17. Adjustable potentiometer x1
18. Passive buzzer piezo buzzer x1
19. Active buzzer tone generator x1
20. Jumper cap x1
21. Large breadboard x1
22. Remote Control x 1
23. 1602 Screen x1
24. Breadboard module x1
25. HC-SR04 module x1
26. Component box x1
27. DuPont line 1 x10pin
28. Breadboard lineapproximately x30
29. 8*8 dot matrix x1
30. One digit eight segment tube x 1
31. Four digit eight segment tube x1
32. IC 74HC595 x1
33. Battery Holder x1
34. Resistance 5 x 220ohm
35. Resistance 5 x 330ohm
36. Ohm resistance 1K x5
37. Ohm resistance 10K x5
38. Battery 9V x1
39. 40pin pin header 2.54mm x1
40. Three color LED module x1
41. Thermistor module x1
42. Touch sensor x1
43. CD with tutorialx1
44. plastic box x1

8) ELEGOO UNO Basic Starter Kit

This is a basic starter kit from Elegoo. This is similar to elegoo super starter kit. But the difference is Only basic components were included in this kit. This has 100+reviews. Elegoo kits always show complaints about missing parts and faulty components .This kit comes with a CD containing 10 lessons explaining the working of each and every component in the kit. This tutorial explains how to install arduino IDE. Each lesson had detailed explanation about connections ,code and components

List of Components in the kit :

1. UNO R3 Controller Board-1
2. USB Cable-1
3. Breadboard-1
4. Jumper Wire-65
5. IC 74HC595-1
6. Active Buzzer-1
7. Tilt Switch-1
8. Photo resistor-1
9. LED(Yellow/Blue/Green/Red/white)-5 each
10. RGB LED-1
11. Button-5
12. Resistor (10R,100R,330R,1k,2k,5.1k,10k,100k,1M)-10 each
13. Resistor 220-30
14. Female-to-male DuPont Wire-5

9) LAFVIN Super Starter Kit

This is a starter  kit for beginners from LANVIN. This is an advanced starter kit. This kit has 184 reviews. This kit includes R3 controller board. Kit includes a tutorial with 20 lessons. LCD Module included comes with a pin header. Check the list of components included in this kit. With very little flaws this is a good kit for beginners.

List of Components in the kit :

1. R3 Controller similar to Arduino UNO
2. Prototype Expansion
3. Stepper Motor
4. USB Cable
5. Remote
6. Jumper Wire-65
7. Power Supply Module
8. Resistors (100)
9. ULN2003 Stepper Motor Driver Board
10. Ultrasonic Sensor
11. Joystick Module
12. Membrance Switch Module
13. Water Level Detection Sensor Module
14. Fan Blade and 3V DC Motor each
15. 7-segment Display(1 digit,4 digit)-1 each
16. DHT11 Temperature and Humidity Module
17. Potentiometer(10K)
18. IR Receiver Module
19. Sound Sensor Module
20. Servo Motor (SG90)
21. LCD1602 Module
22. 5V Relay
23. F-M Dupont Wire
24. 9V Battery Connector with DC (1 lithium ion battery)
25. Electrolytic Capacitor (100UF 50V)
26. L293D
27. 74HC595
28. Passive Buzzer Active Buzzer
29. Small Button (5)
30. RGB Led
31. Leds(Red Led, Yellow Led, Blue Led, Green Led, White Led)-5 each
32. Diode Rectifier 1N4007(2)
33. PN2222 NPN Transistor (2)
34. Thermistor
35. Photoresistor (2)
36. 830 Tie-Points Breadboard

10)SunFounder Mega Super Starter Kit

This is an advanced kit from SunFounder. If you want to experiment with a robotics, 3D printer etc i.e where you need more memory space, more RAM and more i/o pins than UNO then this is the best choice. The controller board included here is SunFounder MEGA 2560.Sunfounder is providing clear and easy instructions set online. Here is the link. Before buying it you can check it here.https://docs.sunfounder.com/projects/uno-mega-kit/en/latest/for_mega2560_user.html

List of Components in the kit :

1. SunFounder Mega board-1
2. Ultrasonic sensor
3. Humidity sensor-1
4. LCD1602
5. DC motor
6. Stepper motor driver.
7. Servo motor
8. Power supply module
9. Joystick module for ps2-1
10. Remote
11. Infrared receiver
12. 5V relay
13. L293d-1
14. 74HC595-1
15. Buttons-5
16. ULN2003 Driver-1
17. Bread board -1
18. Ceramic capacitors(104)-4
19. LEDs(Red/white/green/yellow)-5 each
20. RGB-1
21. Photo resistor-1
22. Resistors(10,100,220,330,1k,2k,5.1k,10k,100k,1M)-10 each
23. Duopont wires
24. Potentiometer-1
25. Thermistor-1
26. Seven segment display(one digit,4 digit)-each 1
27. LM35-2
28. USB cable-1
29. Fan
30. Jumper wire
31. Battery buckle-1
32. 1n4007 diode-1
33. Tilt switch-1
34. Active buzzer-1
35. CD.

11)SunFounder Complete Starter Kit

This is a beginners starter kit from SunFounder. It includes SunFounder UNO board. This kit has 81 reviews. There are no complaints on working of components. Here is list of components.

It contains all the components similar to the above super starter kit. Only the difference is MEGA board is replaced with UNO.

Here is the list of basic starter kits available. These kits do not include Arduino board. If you already have an arduino you choose these kits.

12)Smraza Basic Starter Kit

This is a basic starter kit where the arduino board is not included. This kit includes all the components that are compatible with the arduino. It has 73 reviews.

This is really a good kit with all basic set  of all components. As you experiment with more electronics you need more components but this kit is a good start for beginners. The only disadvantage with this kit is, It does not include power cord. Any ways you can buy it separately.

Here  is the list of components included in this kit :

1. Breadboard
2. Power supply
3. Jumper wires-1×65
4. Resistors
5. Precision potentiometer-1
6. LEDs
7. Active buzzer
8. Passive buzzer
9. Thermistor
10. Photoresistor
11. IC4N35-Octocoupler
12. Shift register
13. Buttons
14. LEDS(white, yellow, Blue, Green, Red)-10each
15. Resistors(10,100,220,330,1k,2k,5.1k,100k,1M)-10 each
16. Diode rectifiers(1N4007)-5
17. NPN transistors-5
18. Electrolytic capacitors(10UF 5ov,100UF 50v)-5 each
19. Ceramic capacitors(104,22PF)-10 each

13)SunFounder Electronics Fun Kit

This is another basic starter which does not include arduino board from SunFounder. It has  reviews. It includes 300 components.it has 33 reviews. This kit includes components like LCD, servo motor, relay, seven segment display etc. Here is the reference link provided by SunFounder about this kit.

https://docs.sunfounder.com/projects/electronic-kit/en/latest/

Here is the list of components :

1. Seven segments
2. LCD 1602
3. Button
4. Servo
5. Bread board
6. Breadboard-1
7. 1M USB Cable-1
8. Passive buzzer-1
9. Relay-1
10. Shift register(74HC595)-1
11. Optocoupler(-1(4N35)
12. Slide switches-5
13. 555 timer-1
14. RGB LED-1
15. LEDs(RED,GREEN,WHITE,BLUE,yellow)-10pieces  each
16. Resistors(10,100,220,330,1k,2k,5.1k,10k,100k,1M)-10 piece each
17. Diodes(1N4007)-5
18. Zener diode-1
19. Ceramic capacitors(104,103)-10 each
20. Electrolytic capacitors(10UF,100UF)-5PCS Each
21. Transistor(S5080)-2PCS
22. 2N7000 transistor-1
23. Thermistor-1PC
24. Tilt switch-1PC
25.  Photoresistor-2PCS
26. potentiometer-2PCS
27. Active buzzer-1
28. DUOpoint wires-20
29. Battery snap-1pc
30. Jump wires-65

14)REXQualis Electronics Basic Kit

This basic kit is from Rexqualis.it has 87 reviews. This kit includes again best components like power supply module, breadboard, adapter and all other basic components.

Here is the list of components :

1. Power supply module
2. Bread board
3. USB Cable
4. Jumper wire-65
5. DuPont wire-20
6. Pin header-
7. Shift register-1
8. Buttons-10
9. Photo resistor
10. Thermistor
11. capacitor electrolytic(10UF,100UF)-10 each
12. Precision potentiometer
13. Optocoupler-1
14. Active buzzer-1
15. Passive buzzer-1
16. NPN Transistor-10 
17. Diode rectifier-10
18. LEDS(white/RED/Blue/Green/yellow)-10 each
19. RGB LEDS-2pcs
20. ceramic capacitors(100NF,22pf)-10 each
21. Resistors(10,100,330,1k,2k,5k,10K,1M)-10pcs each
22. 220 ohm resistor-30 pcs.

15)ELEGOO Electronics Fun Kit

Here comes the basic kit from elegoo. We have seen many kits from elegoo. This stands first in the race when it comes to reviews. It has 552 reviews. There  are complaints about working of jumper wires ,adapter and datasheet. But as said earlier support team very responsive and they will resolve your issues.

Here is list of components included :

1. Power supply module
2. Bread board
3. precision potentiometer
4. Shift register(74HC595)
5. Octocoupler
6. Passive buzzer
7. Active buzzer
8. Duopont wires-20
9. Jumper wires-65
10. Buttons-10
11. Photo resistor-1
12. 40 Pin Header-2
13. PN2222-5
14. Thermistor-1
15. Diodes-5
16. Electrolytic capacitor(10UF,100UF)-5 each
17. Ceramic capacitor(22pf,104)-10 each
18. RGB LEDs-1
19. LEDS(Red/Green/blue/yellow/white)-10 each
20. Resistors(10,100,220,330,1k,2k,5.1k,10k,100k,1M)-10 each

Conclusion:

From the above list the original kit from arduino is best kit in quality.For best economical kit you can choose any kit from ELegoo. Most of the kits selected in the above are Arduino UNO starter kits as it is easy to work for novice.Only two kits contains Arduino mega board ,which can be chosen by audience who have hands on experience in arduino programming and hardware.