InventrReviews of inventr.io

Got the lost in space kit. It has lots of fun little projects to build that progressively help you learn about how to control devices with the microprocessor. Had a hardware issue but their customer service was excellent and handled it quickly to resolve my issue.

the programs & wiring did not always match.

Great concept only issues I have are 1 board is to small difficult to work with 2 could use a basic description of what all the coding words mean because I have never had any training as I’m sure most people don’t finding the coding is the hardest concept to grasp 3 better way to store resisters once I used them and they mixed was difficult to identify also could include card showing how to identify the different resister values Like the videos Like the product

I bought this for my grandson while he was here on vacation. I had some trouble loading the program in windows. I am not sure why but after a few tries it finally worked. The electronics part was fine and no problem. the coding was a big problem and my son in law couldn't get it to work either. We finally got through 2 or 3 lessons and it was time for them to leave. I let him take it with him. He does like it and I am going to try to help him. I think this is a very good project for young people now days.

I saw the ad on Facebook and decided to get the 30 Days Lost in Space adventure kit. I have had some education in electronics and am familiar with all the different building blocks (Resistors, LEDs, capacitors, ICs, etc...) I got the kit, did the downloads, and began the adventure. Right off the bat I had a problem. The sketch would not upload to the board. After a number of attempts to get it working I emailed Inventr to tell them. In the meantime I ordered an Arduino board directly from Arduino. It worked just fine. I continued with the Hero board lessons with the new board. I enjoyed doing the different circuits. I did have a little difficulty when a couple of the lessons showed different wiring schemes than the one in the video. A lack of consistency causes confusion. I think a schematic diagram for each lesson would be very helpful. In the meantime I received another whole kit from Inventr to replace the faulty Hero board I got initially. Bravo. It works just fine, and now I have extra parts to play with on the creative days. I can tell this is a fledgling company and they have a ways to go to polish their presentations, but all in all it is a good experience and I am enjoying the lessons. We are all human and we make mistakes. The measure of the company is how it responds to those mistakes. They are responsive to customers through their lesson sites and through emails. I intend to purchase more through InventrKits.

Great value for the kits/training. The biggest issue is the website is slow at times and have to wait many seconds after clicking on links, but overall it's great.

The lessons have been incredible so far, and the email containing this survey link was very kind. I can’t really think of any complaints besides maybe asking for future videos to explain the programming concepts just a bit more thoroughly, so keep up the good work. To elaborate on that one comment, I already have a background in electrical and software type projects so I understand a lot of the fundamentals of programming already, but my father (who has a career in the field) pointed out that while the instructions in the video are clear on what to do it doesn’t quite explain why it works. For example, the average student wouldn’t know that a resistor is needed for each led pin and that would have potential to cause a mishap or maybe they would be confused on how to make a specific concept work on creative day because they don’t quite get how to take the instructions and apply them in other ways. However, that being said it wouldn’t take much more research to understand the missing pieces if I wasn’t already aware of it so I still believe that the instructions are very good. I only say the above to help you do even better for those after me. You’re doing a great job so far, so I look forward to your next kit once I finish my current one with my father.

Good so far, I am 1/3 of the way through. The only problem is looking at the screen, listening, and typing get a bit busy. Also Alex said arrays always start from 0 and that is not true for Matlab. I think it is in lesson 10.