Something doesn't add up here, the pins on the one header are being bent slightly into an angle, yet they go through straight holes. Also... in the protoshield the copperside is on top, that makes it at least a bit easier to solder those bent pins, but the servo shield is kinda different, must have been bend somewhere else. My point anyway is that the video jumps kinda easily over the 'bending', butit isn't. It is ofcourse much easier to buy a ready made protoshield for about 1.10 euro at Aliexpress, including all the headers
Well, if you're going to do this, why not go the whole nine yards and make your own boards? The Lite version of Eagle is free, and two-layer boards are pretty cheap to have fabricated.
pj I'll have to ask my engineering professor the name of the company, but he told me that they fabricate boards for $2.50 per square inch per board layer.
VestedUTuber though, you can still use perfboard as well. I have a project currently where an RPi is connected up to 5 different pieces of perfboard, currently running 5 motors (4 steppers and 1 PMDC), with one of the boards serving as a glue-board (essentially, it is partway between a normal board and a hybrid breadboard made from hacked up DIP sockets), to interface between the RPi and the other boards, and also to down-regulate the input voltage to 5v (this particular machine is powered by a 240W 12v power brick). there are also a few limit switches, a tachometer for the PMDC motor, ... though, it is basically more of the same, just with a lot more wires and hot glue... (have used enough of it that hot glue is basically a building material in this thing...).
Nice video, but i have a question. If i connect the male header pins the way you are showing us, then the copper holes are facing upwards, meaning that the components of my protoshield need to face the arduino, and some of them dont fit. Any tips?
jorenmartijn Yeah possibly. They could have put a plastic plug in the unused socket next to IOref or something like that it's not like it is totally symmetrical anyway so reversed connections should be rare.
Man just thank God, older peeps had it much worse, like a chip only (e.g the PIC uC) and they build their own boards and built programmers thru serial (COM) and parallel (LPT) ports with wires, connectors, a components. And had no IDE. Just talk to older guy who dealt with them and see what he could tell you. They possess(ed) higher knowledge though, due to that process.
Sure, you can make anything. See what your LCD needs and connect/solder the pins. Some LCDs got driver chips (IC chip that makes it show stuff) which is better and easier. Others do not which is kinda hard to deal with. So get one with the driver/chip and make sure it is easy to run on arduino so it does not give you a hard time to set it up and dig for its libraries and relative files. www.intorobotics.com/the-best-arduino-lcd-displays-you-can-have-right-now/
Why should anyone build someting like this when he can build his own arduino (atmega 328 with a quarz) and the components he needs with a sheel when he kan build is on one board for less than the half price Sorry for my bad englisch i'm a little drunk and i'm a native german speaker
Lukas Jaeger working with microprocessors used to be very difficult. Not so much the getting the µP to work, but getting it programmed, and experimenting with the program.Arduino pretty much singlehandedly revolutionized this by adding everything you need onto a single cheap board, lower the bar to get it programmed to near zero, and provide a decent bootloader and set of API's that make it easy to program.Just connect to a USB port on your PC, use an easy to use IDE, and even kids can make a led blink or do all sorts of amazing stuff. It put microprocessors into the hands of 'normal people' instead of being only for electronics engineers.The same is true for the shields. Shields allow you an easy way to experiment with electronics without really understanding much of what/how the individual components work.Arduino and a lof of the other µP boards out there are not so much an example of "ideal electronics", because it isn't there's a lot of stuff on there you don't need for any one particular project. But combined it's an easy one-stop access to a whole wide world where even non engineers can play and experiment.If you ARE going to make a product and sell it and need to save on the costs, or absolutely positively need it stripped down to bare components for size, then yes, you can make your own PCB layout based on the atmel (or whatever chip), but then this isn't for a normal person anymore, that'll need someone that at least has a well enough education in electronics.
Something doesn't add up here, the pins on the one header are being bent slightly into an angle, yet they go through straight holes.
Also... in the protoshield the copperside is on top, that makes it at least a bit easier to solder those bent pins, but the servo shield is kinda different, must have been bend somewhere else.
My point anyway is that the video jumps kinda easily over the 'bending', butit isn't.
It is ofcourse much easier to buy a ready made protoshield for about 1.10 euro at Aliexpress, including all the headers
Looks cool!
InstaBlaster
Well, if you're going to do this, why not go the whole nine yards and make your own boards? The Lite version of Eagle is free, and two-layer boards are pretty cheap to have fabricated.
VestedUTuber any recommendations on where to order from?
pj I'll have to ask my engineering professor the name of the company, but he told me that they fabricate boards for $2.50 per square inch per board layer.
VestedUTuber unless there is a minimum order.
TheDutyPaid
Of course... but I know that there are companies out there that don't have a minimum order.
VestedUTuber though, you can still use perfboard as well. I have a project currently where an RPi is connected up to 5 different pieces of perfboard, currently running 5 motors (4 steppers and 1 PMDC), with one of the boards serving as a glue-board (essentially, it is partway between a normal board and a hybrid breadboard made from hacked up DIP sockets), to interface between the RPi and the other boards, and also to down-regulate the input voltage to 5v (this particular machine is powered by a 240W 12v power brick). there are also a few limit switches, a tachometer for the PMDC motor, ...
though, it is basically more of the same, just with a lot more wires and hot glue... (have used enough of it that hot glue is basically a building material in this thing...).
Nice video, but i have a question. If i connect the male header pins the way you are showing us, then the copper holes are facing upwards, meaning that the components of my protoshield need to face the arduino, and some of them dont fit. Any tips?
Buy a double sided doughnut board
there is no link in description, can you place link for project
It's a shame they did not design the arduino boards without the annoying spacing between those two headers. Some might scream conspiracy ;)
***** It's so you can't put the shield on backwards.
jorenmartijn Yeah possibly. They could have put a plastic plug in the unused socket next to IOref or something like that it's not like it is totally symmetrical anyway so reversed connections should be rare.
Man just thank God, older peeps had it much worse, like a chip only (e.g the PIC uC) and they build their own boards and built programmers thru serial (COM) and parallel (LPT) ports with wires, connectors, a components. And had no IDE. Just talk to older guy who dealt with them and see what he could tell you.
They possess(ed) higher knowledge though, due to that process.
Thx
Cool.....
can i make a lcd shield with this
Sure, you can make anything. See what your LCD needs and connect/solder the pins.
Some LCDs got driver chips (IC chip that makes it show stuff) which is better and easier.
Others do not which is kinda hard to deal with. So get one with the driver/chip and make sure it is easy to run on arduino so it does not give you a hard time to set it up and dig for its libraries and relative files.
www.intorobotics.com/the-best-arduino-lcd-displays-you-can-have-right-now/
Why should anyone build someting like this when he can build his own arduino (atmega 328 with a quarz) and the components he needs with a sheel when he kan build is on one board for less than the half price
Sorry for my bad englisch i'm a little drunk and i'm a native german speaker
Lukas Jaeger working with microprocessors used to be very difficult. Not so much the getting the µP to work, but getting it programmed, and experimenting with the program.Arduino pretty much singlehandedly revolutionized this by adding everything you need onto a single cheap board, lower the bar to get it programmed to near zero, and provide a decent bootloader and set of API's that make it easy to program.Just connect to a USB port on your PC, use an easy to use IDE, and even kids can make a led blink or do all sorts of amazing stuff. It put microprocessors into the hands of 'normal people' instead of being only for electronics engineers.The same is true for the shields. Shields allow you an easy way to experiment with electronics without really understanding much of what/how the individual components work.Arduino and a lof of the other µP boards out there are not so much an example of "ideal electronics", because it isn't there's a lot of stuff on there you don't need for any one particular project.
But combined it's an easy one-stop access to a whole wide world where even non engineers can play and experiment.If you ARE going to make a product and sell it and need to save on the costs, or absolutely positively need it stripped down to bare components for size, then yes, you can make your own PCB layout based on the atmel (or whatever chip), but then this isn't for a normal person anymore, that'll need someone that at least has a well enough education in electronics.
please make video on a all countries basic & easy cell phone network jammer.
please
That is illegal in most countries