Material for a UC Irvine course offered by the Department of Physics Astronomy and taught by David Kirkby.

This course uses a standard component kit whose total cost is about US$200:

There are two components (9V supply, AC relay) that assume North American AC power. The kit's jumper wires and cables are not shown in the photo. If you are ordering components yourself, there is some soldering required to attached headers.

Most of the components are designed and manufactured by adafruit which provides excellent supporting documentation and tutorials.

The two microcontroller boards (Metro M4) are programmable and require some initial setup: instructions are here.

1. Digital Multimeter
2. Waveforms and Photons