ELEGOO MEGA R3 Board ATmega 2560 + USB Cable Compatible with Arduino IDE Projects RoHS Compliant

Great board! Everything you would expect for the Mega. Works perfect with the Arduino IDE.

This Arduino Mega 2560 R3 clone has proven to be perfectly reliable over the past month. Even when I accidentally shorted a pin directly to ground (and burnt out a port on my USB hub), this guy kept on ticking, with no damage. (Although, admittedly, it would have been nice if its polyfuse had acted faster then, but I can't really fault it. Complete user error.) It seems to be fully compatible with the real Mega 2560 R3, and it required no special drivers for Windows. It worked out of the box with the stock Arduino software.The black soldermask PCB is a nice touch. I also bought their blue version (Elegoo MEGA 2560 R3 Board ATmega2560 ATMEGA16U2 + USB Cable Compatible With Arduino) and both seem to work equally as well. Only difference is the color.The port names are silkscreened on the sides of the headers, which is great and something many other Arduino clones do not have. It is much easier reading the clear labels there than on the PCB itself, especially with lots of things connected. The headers aren't soldered PERFECTLY straight but I've rarely seen anyone get that right, and it was so slightly that it doesn't matter in practice. Only if you look close. There was no problem with any of my shields.Only potential complaint was that there were a few copper filaments kind of stick underneath one of the headers. I removed them with a tweezers before powering it on for the first time. They looked like they could have been a remnant from machining through a copper plane during PCB manufacturing(although not I'm sure why the copper planes would go all the way to the edge). Anyway, they were relatively easily removed and not worth deducting a star for. But maybe just give this a quick once-over before plugging it in.Overall, no regrets--especially at ~1/4 the cost of an authentic Mega 2560 R3! It even came with a USB cable (which I haven't used).

worked great and was compatible with code used

If you are wondering if this is a Genuine Arduino. It is not, but it works just fine. I use many of these on my model railroad and even used one for the control on a professional PCB test fixture. I have bought over 10 of these and every one was good. The USB interface is sometimes an issue with "non-genuine" Arduidos, but this one. It uses an Atmel chip and I have had zero issues with the USB. I have used it on both PC and Apple. The quality of the soldering and PCB is "Good enough", again every one I have bought works. I have fried a few of them but these were my mistake, not a quality problem from Elegoo. I also bought the starter kit from Elegoo. The hardware in their kit is fine but the documentation has some mistakes. I am an EE and figured out the problems, but for a true beginner you want a better instruction manual. For the money these are a good value and get the job done.

Works just like the Arduino Mega, but much less expensive. So far it's been very reliable.

Just as advertised. Works as expected. I have purchased several pruducts from this company and have been satisfied with all of them.

Combined with the EX-MotorSheild 8874 and EX-WiFiSheild-8266, ELEGOO Mega R3 makes a great cheap DCC Command Station for running Model Trains on a DCC layout.DCC-EX Installer makes it easy to downloadup to date software to the ELEGOO Mega R3.

I worked in as an instrument technician for 45 years and have seen a lot of change in controls field. This controller is a powerful board and the number of uses for it is only limited by your imagination. This board emulates the Arduino with no problem and is recognized by the third party software I used with it.I recently built a G1000 avionics device using two of these controllers and interfaced it with x-plane using the Mobiflight interface.Although the Arduino software takes some time to learn there are plenty of you tube instruction on programming.If you are looking for an Arduino compatible board this as a great alternative.

Quick shippings, lots of board connections, worked right out of the box...nough said

La verdad me asustaba un poco que el producto no llegase a funcionar con la plataforma de arduino o que estuviera hecho con mteriales de mala calidad, sin embargo me sorprendieron con la calidad del producto, llego antes del tiempo establecido y funciona de maravilla dentro de la plataforma.

So good quality

Good affordable local source of arduino boards. Mega is overkill for my needs but the discount is too good

Having used many Arduinos for Virtual Organ Projects, the ones from Elegoo have been of consistently high quality and have never failed to perform. Even if they cost a bit more, they are worth it.Highly recommended.