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Sparkfun launches STEM Tera Breadboard. Nice idea and some doubts

balearicdynamics
balearicdynamics over 8 years ago

In these days Sparkfun launched in pre-order the STEM breadboard Arduino Tera. The concept is simple yet efficient; a breadboard - notable the LEGO brick support too - including and Arduino-compatible board to make things easier for Makers and hobbyists creating their own projects. The product is available in three flavours: white, black and pink (pink maybe for Barbie modding image )

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14082

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14083

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14084

 

Also the price (45.00$) is very interesting, few higher than a bare Arduino Uno. Buying all the components (Arduino, breadboard and some accessory stuff) probably you will spend the same or a little more. It is easy to imagine this will be a success product as well as all the stuff that really simplify the makers' life: less wires and cleaner prototyping.

 

I have just a doubt on the educational value of the tera breadboard; as much the stuff of the project development lifecycle is embedded inside another box inside another box etc. as much users are kept away from the core of the learning process, IMHO. The real education value that made Arduino boards a long-term top product is just their simplicity: so easy to build that anyone can make its own (with a lot of support on the net) also only with a sheet of paper. I think the strong educational value is giving the possibility to the user to put his hands inside the architecture of the microcontroller and the minimal components making it perfectly working with hundreds of nice projects.

 

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  • jlangbridge
    jlangbridge over 8 years ago +3
    My students would have loved to have this, it would have saved them so much time, but only at the beginning of the project. As soon as they needed to use the Sigfox shield, things would have got complicated…
  • balearicdynamics
    balearicdynamics over 8 years ago in reply to jlangbridge +2
    Hello James, we share the same doubts but as I have not yet got it in my hands, I can't be sure. I agree that it saves time, but I remain convinced that it also cut a meaningful part of the learning curve…
  • mlsasfe
    mlsasfe over 8 years ago in reply to jlangbridge +2
    Hi James, Just wanted to jump in here...I work at SparkFun and we did verify that you can plug in Arduino shields to the STEMTera like in the photo ...hope that helps.
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  • jlangbridge
    jlangbridge over 8 years ago

    My students would have loved to have this, it would have saved them so much time, but only at the beginning of the project. As soon as they needed to use the Sigfox shield, things would have got complicated. In the video, they say it is compatible with thousands of shields, but I fail to see how.

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    mlsasfe over 8 years ago in reply to jlangbridge

    Hi James,

     

    Just wanted to jump in here...I work at SparkFun and we did verify that you can plug in Arduino shields to the STEMTera like in the photo...hope that helps.

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  • balearicdynamics
    balearicdynamics over 8 years ago in reply to mlsasfe

    Hello Megan,

     

    thank you for the clarification. I suggest to add some images because I think that this question will arise in the mind of many users.

     

    Enrico

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  • balearicdynamics
    balearicdynamics over 8 years ago in reply to mlsasfe

    Hello Megan,

     

    thank you for the clarification. I suggest to add some images because I think that this question will arise in the mind of many users.

     

    Enrico

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  • mlsasfe
    mlsasfe over 8 years ago in reply to balearicdynamics

    hey enrico- great point ;-) will pass along to the product team, thanks!

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