BONROB Raspberry Starter Learning Kit

Works great so far exactly as described. You get one spare heat sink. It is fragile plastic & plastic nylon screws so not rugged, but has fan & much better than bare pi & wires. Just watch the video follow exactly pause it as u go. it’s very simple, place heat sinks on board, unscrew 4 screws invert screws to hold layers in place as u go. clear/black/pi/clear/black.. layer etc. fan attaches to to the 2nd & 3rd pin to the upper left pin set on board(skip 1st one then plug red fan cord into next 2 pins).

I had purchased a Raspberry Pi and needed a case and fan for it. This fit the bill perfectly. The Raspberry Pi fits nicely and heat-sinks and fan work great to keep things cool. You can hear the fan, but it is certainly not obnoxious or distracting.A great value and well worth the cost!

Update February 28, 2019:Was contacted by Bonrob. They replaced the defective power supply and the replacement works perfectly. I’ve updated my review to reflect my satisfaction with the resolution of my original issue with this item. Thank you Bonrob for stepping up.The case itself seems to be well built and very functional for use with a Raspberry Pi 3 B+. It would be helpful if the seller provided assembly instructions with the kit. I had to go to the item's Amazon product page where an image of the assembly is provided. The problem I did run into was with the provided power supply. It was causing my Raspberry Pi to continually reboot by itself. I had another power supply lying around and it worked fine and didn't cause the issue with the reboots. I tried to contact the seller through the "Contact Seller" link but as of this date, no response whatsoever. I will update this review should I hear from the seller. At this point, I'd recommend purchasing a comparable case from another seller.

The CD that came with the kit was blank ... I wasn't happy about that. But I chatted with their Customer Service and was pleasantly surprised to get a very helpful CS rep. They promptly said they will have a replacement sent to me in a few days. I was happy about that ... as long as it does show up. Very easy to deal with; so far I recommend them. The kit is pretty complete for experimenting.

Thought it was an upgrade compared to the ones that come in the pi kits. It is a little tricky to assembly, but you just have to keep the pieces in order. Was happy for one day, I dropped it about 2 feet onto a wood floor. The corner screw head broke off and the fan quit from that moment. Luckily the pi was still fine.I’ve since replaced the screws with big box store replacement (ugly silver color) and bought a 4 pack of fans from Amazon in case the next one quits too. So it’s up and running again. I know a lot of people aren’t fond of the acrylic cases, but it seems pretty sturdy given the minimal abuse I’ve given it.Also the power supply is faulty, the cord is fine but the supply kept turning my pi on and off and it would reboot itself several times. It wasn’t consistent so I thought it was internal, until I switched to another supply. No problems from now on.I’d move on and recommend another package if possible.

I didn't find the case TOO hard to assemble, but I did find the fan to be too noisy. Even inside a cabinet, I could still hear the fan. Nice case once put together, and the heatsinks included were a nice bonus.

It looks great. Easy and simple to assemble.Fan noise equivalent to PC.Great value

I'm getting started in electronics tinkering and this kit provided a good baseline set of equipment to get started. Most useful is the breadboard and the mounting plate, since I have both a Raspberry Pi as well as an Arduino Uno that I plan to play with. I haven't had a chance to try out all of the components but the overall collection seems complete.The most notable issue I would say is that the T-cobbler (the board that breaks out the RPi's GPIO/power/etc pins and can be mounted on the breadboard) is a little awkward when it is mounted sideways from the Pi, as happens on this board. You end up with an awkward twist in the ribbon cable. The older-style "vertical" cobbler would be more suited for this arrangement, but I do believe those are harder to come by. If this is a big concern, you can always pick up a rounded 40pin IDE cable (don't go with an 80-pin, they have extra ground wires which might mess with the connections) and use that.