A simple project that took a surprisingly long time to build. I made this board just for testing my programs, so that I could visually verify with LED's to indicate any high bits. Enjoy!
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I would love a how-to video about the download sketching!
One great thing about Arduinos is that there always seems to be an example program that gets me about 70% there. I've never had to start from scratch with the code.
I just press the pins down and they fit!
You are an ardu killer!
Love the video, I never noticed that spacing on the arduino. I usually use the cheaper DIP-sized versions from other companies, now I don't want the genuine ones, that seems pretty mean and anti-hobbyist
What kind of gloves are you wearing in this video ?
Nice trick, very clever to split the board like that, and always good to have an LED board to show all the pins.
I prefer to use SOT-23 transistors myself when cobbling up LED displays like that, because (new trick warning) they fit nicely within an L of three holes of the perfboard. Also 0805 resistors nicely span and share adjacent perfboard holes. They're small enough to be tricky to solder, but still just large enough that you can still assemble them by hand on perfboard.
I just learned the word "Arduino" from you recently and it's been stuck in my head the whole time. It's pleasing to say… aaarrrddduuuiiinnnoooooooooo… mmm hmmm.
The reason for that 50mil spacing is to keep you from plugging in you shield in a misaligned way. If you ever plug peripherals into a Raspberry pi, you had to check to make sure that it was aligned in the socket. But with that 50mil spacing, it makes it difficult to accidentally plug your shield in a misaligned way. But I do agree. It makes it very frustrating to use standard protoboard on an arduino.
Use Arduino Nano's and then you can use regular perfboards and make anything you want. Or better yet, skip the Arduinos altogether and go for the Teensies, STM32's, ESP32's, and tons of other more fun, more capable boards with much less hassle.
Bless you for finding "bodges" as we say in U.K, really hate letting "the Man" force me to spend too much for things that are just there to make more money.
You can buy breadboard shields on Amazon with the correct spacing.
For tax purposes. You can write off the purchase of an official arduino developer shield from your taxes (or labor for time building that board you made). based on state / fed tax laws in your area ask a cpa and a tax perparer about you tube taxes. Thanks for the content. Be well.
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I dont see why people have so much trouble with this. Put a male header in, pull the plastic joining strip off then bend a kink into each of the headers.
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Although you lose the charm of getting to solder and engineer solutions for connections when you do it this way have you thought of using someone like JLCPCB since they offer board assembly services now for components they carry in stock?
Really enjoyed this video Fran. Thank you for putting it together.