Hey guys, it's Christian here from core electronics. today I'm going to take you through the spark fun inventors get the 4.0 version. So, this is a kit for enthusiasts and educators and it's quite a good kit given that it's using project lead learning to teach, these enthusiasts and educators like yourself, the basics of microcontrollers.

So today we're going to build the base plate so that we have a good foundation for our projects I'll start to go into the actual projects in future videos. So, first of all we can put the breadboard on the base plate by, removing the yellow film from the back of it and placing so the numbers run down the length of the board in chronological fashion. Next we want to fix the red board loosely to the base plate through means of screws. So, it's important to note that while doing this, we just want to fix the red board to the base plate, we don't want to necessarily clamp it on there so tight that it could break it.

Now that the base plate is assembled we can start to get into future projects.

So, the red board provided in the kit is like the build of the Arduino Uno R3 revision. It has a bunch of cool things on it that will go through now. So, the Barrel Jack is for connecting 7 to 15 volts of power, so the reason that we have a Barrel Jack connection, as well as the mini USB connection, is so that we're actually able to put the project up in a ceiling or on a robot that will be driving around or moving around were able to do that so that it's got a mobile power supply. So, as I just mentioned the mini USB port is where we can power the red board and where we can upload the code from the computer. So, next is a hard-reset button that's used if we an annoying sound going on in some of our sound projects or we just want to manually reset the board at some stage. Next to the RX TX and pin 13 LEDs so, they notify us when there is something happening at each of those ports or pins. So, the RX will flash when we're receiving data on the red board, the TX will flash when we're transmitting data and pin 13 will be high or on, when pin 13 is high or on and it will go low or off when the value of pin 13 is low or off.

So that's a brief overview of this Sparkfun inventors kit in future videos I'll be going through these projects one by one see that.