Today was the day I got blown away by the generosity of Element 14 as well as Adafruit and Matlab.
The development package send to me is so great... I still cant realize how lucky I am.
So I will share the unboxing with you since with the exams coming I don't have much time to do more ( and I am going to Alaska... my schedule is getting pretty full 
)
Anyway here we go.
With my trusty Swiss army ( HOP Schweiz !! ) knife I cracked open with no effort the box 
As you can see my smartphone (despite the price ) does blurry photos and make them super big (about 2.5 Mo each)
Here is a trick for the Macintosh users 
It took about 4 sec to convert the all bunch of pictures you will see during the unboxing... Not bad right (for an old Macbook Air at least)
So inside the box I was happy to discover everything that the description described (and even more)
Starting of with the power brick
Which came fully charged (that is a nice bonus). I will definitely take it with me to Alaska next week (it is Transducers 2015 in Anchorage)
The Pi noir camera which is an infrared verion of the pi camera...
And the pi camera
I was really pleased to see that both of the cameras were included in the kit. I was only expecting for the standard pi camera. So that is super great even that I will probably only use the regular for my exercise she sorting machine.
And then COMES THE REAL DEAL !!!
The new rasperry pi 2
And since the little case was sitting in the box begging to be used I did a little test fit ...
Ok, next came three individual items,
The Sharp distance sensor (which has this little five pins connection and no cable included 
)
An ADC from microchip (datasheet)
And a 2200 mA 5V DC which is awesome (if it had a blood european style socket plug )
After already 10 good minutes of pure enjoyment cam this big box (the Project Kit)
And Inside came another power supply yet also with the damn yankee socket I won't show the picture of it to show of my disappointment...
Moving on I got a second raspberry pi board... I will soon start a collection.
The two board side to side, upside down. I may and up giving one of those to a friend, we will see if I get to find a use for both...
We the have a bunch of cable from the boring micro-USB, and ethernet, to the more appealing HDMI and the fabulous UART->usb which has a slick design in contrast to my homemade one.
Sticking with cables the kit also included to ribbon cables: one multicolor (sweet) and another one design to go with the breadboard adapter.
On the prototype side of the kit we find a big nice breadboard, a bunch of jumper wires as well as some little components (led, switches, resistors ect)
To wrap up the unboxing I was amazed to find in the bottom of the pile of goodness a little micro-SD reader usb dongle.
(Ouch this picture is pretty bad ... Sorry for the blurs)
So what can I say, THANK YOU !! I guess... This so much hardware. I am speechless.
Time is not running in my favor here since I won't be able to work on the project for a while.
I will do most of the hardware work in July, since I will have access to a small homeshop to prototype something out for the project.
I allready have a color detector going (unfortunately it detects only one color and I don't have the time to write a full blog post about it, at least not today... it is getting late)
Again a big thanks, particularly @Madhu Govindarajan which does a really good job with the Matlab introductions (I wouldn't even know that Matlab script would run on a Raspberry if it wasn't for the videos he makes... )
Good luck to the other participants and I hope to see you all in the next post !!
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