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

I love these arduino MCU as they are reliable and fun to program for my Model Railroad.

Good quality product. Easy to program and operate.

I got my 3D printer from Elegoo a while back. They had barely released it, coincidentally about the same time I entered the market for one. It was so easy to use and setup! My experience with this product changed my opinion of Elegoo from a neutral "ok, it's just another company" to "this place makes some really good stuff." Fast forward to now: I purchase this board, assuming that it was good because it was Elegoo. It arrived quickly, but I didn't use it until a while later. When I did try to use it, it wasn't working! Very disappointing, but also very unusual for Elegoo. I then go to contact Elegoo support for help and they sent me a replacement with next-day shipping! Although the shipping speed might be on Amazon's part, Elegoo still had amazing customer service! If you're looking for a board for any project, Elegoo is the way to go! This board provides amazing value for its cost; I can say with confidence that I will be purchasing a lot of these in the future!

I am a retired EE. I spend a lot of time keeping my brain working by doing little electronic projects. I had spent several dozen hours trying to get a PIC project working - all to no avail. The examples I was using were all Arduino based; and I simply couldn't untangle the Arduino code enough to understand the details. So I broke down and bought this in the hopes that if I got it to work I had enough electronic equipment to reverse engineer the signals if not the code. It Worked. But this review is about the Elegoo Mega. I have only done two things with the platform. But I can tell you that both projects worked fine as though I had a "real" Arduino... of course the Arduino stuff is all open source, so maybe I should not be surprised - but it was nice to not have to worry about any compatibility issues as I was learning. I will continue building projects in the PIC Ecosystem... I get to fully understand the inner workings of the code - all of the code. But since the Arduino Ecosystem is so much more vast than any other platform, I am sure that I will continue to use this little board to get a handle on how to jump to another platform... and I don't feel like a traitor to Mcirochip since the AVR products are part of the same company now. If you are worried about build quality or compatibility, based on my very limited experience (the project I was working on touched a lot of the Arduino Ecosystem - so I might not have a "lot" of project experience I number of projects - but I have quite a lot of experience with the Arduino Ecosystem anyway) worry not. This product is very nice indeed...

Performs as expected and saved money

I like Elegoo clones, but I'm only giving this one 4 out of 5 stars because the sockets for pins 8-SCL are not alligned with all of the other sockets, making it difficult for making shields with generic protoboards. I don't know if this is true of the Arduino mega, but if it is, that's a bad design idea. In my picture you can see that a single standard header strip can connect the digital DIP sockets with the communication socket and the pins 0-7 socket, but won't fit pins 8-SCL. Now this may not be a problem for everyone, but if you wanna make a generic shield that utilizes all of the PWM pins, it's going to be a total hassle. Aside from that, it's a good board, does what it's supposed to do and is affordable, well packaged, and arrives on time. Elegoo's other products have been awesome to me, especially the nano clones and the double sided pcb kits. If the mega board didn't have this one hiccup, I'd give it five stars. I also like how the pins are labeled on the sockets as well as the board. It's a nice touch.

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).

Great product ant it is easy to use.

So good quality

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.

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

runs perfect, no issues with connectivity ....no issues running code ... quick delivery (next day) well packed ( mailer envelope) .. Bought 2 more!!

I like this one. The board has better labelling of the I/O pins than most of the Arduino boards you buy.