 It is the parts PAL. So parts PAL is fantastic as a beginner kit for doing a lot of the types of projects that you want to do when you're learning how to use microcontrollers in particular or just electronics in general. Get this nice case, red board, jumpers, breakaway headers, LEDs, passeters, resistors, transistors, voltage regulators, 555 timer, an op amp, diodes, the piezo buzzer, switches, slide switches, potentiometers, photocell, vibration sensor, thermistor. You'll frequently do these types of things with it when you're just first learning. Usually have your microcontroller and then it'll say okay plug it into a breadboard and then add these parts to these pins. So here you can see I've got ground going to one leg of an LED, the other leg of the LED is going through a resistor and then through another jumper wire back over to one of the pins and I'm sending it a really basic blink project. It is our best friend, the parts PAL.