Getting You started Kit

Clumsy fingers and electronic duncery be damned: Alex Cox tests Maker Life’s painless plug-and-play Pi programming package for the rest of us.

- Alex Cox

The Raspberry Pi is the perfect platform for hardware experimentation. That’s sort of the point. But how many of those ubiquitous mini boards are being run with absolutely nothing done with their headers? We’d wager it’s the vast majority – and, as Maker Life’s most basic kit so ably shows, it’s not actually that tricky to drive outputs and read inputs, either from a hardware or code standpoint.

The Getting You Started Kit comes with literally everything you might need to, well, get started with the business of driving electronics. There’s a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a Noobs-loaded MicroSD card, all the cables and adapters required to get it powered and hooked up to a monitor and peripherals, and a small selection of components.