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It was both fun, interesting and educational on both learning hardware and software development.

I bought the kit for my son (11) who loves to tinker and build things. I was worried that the coding might be over his head, but he's trucking through. It was so exciting to build the early units together, to see the lights come on and the logic start to make sense. Great product, down to earth, easy to use. When you install the software, be sure to watch all of the first video so you don't waste an hour looking for the drivers like I did.

Quality stuff, good prices.

I received the 30 Days Lost in Space kit through the Civil Air Patrol Aerospace Education Program. I have found it quite interesting and innovative. The story with nice videos will keep my cadet's interest and focus on learning micro-controllers, peripherals, electronic components, and programming. I have used Raspberry Pi and Arduino for classes in the past and they were not as interest-holding as the 30 Days Lost in Space will be.

This kit is a nice collection of components with lessons to follow online. Parts are good quality and the lessons are fun. The fact that there is a bit of a story to the lessons makes it unique in the world of educational electronics and programing kits. Each lesson has a comment section where you can discuss with other people that are following along.

My 3rd grader loves to tinker with programming using Scratch, so I got the "30 Days Lost in Space" kit to help her dive a little deeper and stretch her brain a little more. The idea was so compelling that I bought it after seeing an advertisement on Facebook, which I had never done before. :) When the kit arrived, we weren't able to upload programs to our HERO board. Reading through the message board we saw that several other people had the same issue, so I reached out to Belrey for help. After briefly troubleshooting with me over email, they determined that the board was faulty and sent us a replacement kit at no cost which arrived after about a week. The replacement board worked flawlessly and we just finished Lesson 1. We even extended the lesson a little; rather than just making the LED blink on and off, we made it blink an SOS pattern in morse code (since we are stranded in space!) That let us get comfortable with changing the code and reasoning through some basic error messages like missing semicolons, and gave us a reason to learn how to define our own functions. My daughter loved it and we can't wait to do Lesson 2. So far I think this is a great product. It presents a fixed and concrete set of capabilities to work with (LEDs, a 7-segment display, a tiny screen, a speaker, etc.) which makes it easier to focus on the more abstract things about code and circuit layout. Plus the programs you write make this physical object do stuff! The world of electronics is so big it can be tough to know where to start. An important benefit of this kit is that it is self-contained; you don't need any other tools like a soldering iron, and you can focus on learning and building. As for the faulty board, it's unfortunate but that does happen. There is a global chip shortage this year due to covid so maybe they got a bad batch from the manufacturer and weren't able to ramp up QA fast enough. At any rate, I think the sign of good customer service isn't ensuring that nothing ever breaks (since that's impossible) but helping to fix it when it does, and by that measure I give Inventr top marks for being responsive and helpful.

I’ve had nothing but fun and success with the 30 days in space adventure I also ordered the sensor pack and then a shield pack. All have arrived very quickly and I’ve been pleased and look forward to growing in this hobby even more! I will be ordering from them again and all the FREE yep Free training is great!

The Lost In Space adventure kit was goofy, informative, fun and engaging. A great time and a lot to learn!