Arduino MIDI-in shield

Step 3 Production

Just a few hints for making the shield:

A very good how-to (that actually worked form me unlike many others) for etching the board can be found here: http://hackaday.com/2008/07/28/how-to-etch-a-single-sided-pcb/

If you are a noob like me and want to modify the board in eagle then try these instructables:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Draw-Electronic-Schematics-with-CadSoft-EAGLE
http://www.instructables.com/id/Turn-your-EAGLE-schematic-into-a-PCB
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-hobbyist-PCBs-with-professional-CAD-tools-by-

Soldering the pinheads upwards down on the board so you can directly put it on the arduino is a real pain in the ass. I rasped a head of my soldering iron so that it became small enough to do that job. let me know if you have a better solution.

For this board I used a DIN connector that can be soldered directly to it. If you want to use another one be sure to connect the pins with the numbers on the board to the according pins on the connector. In the pic here the pins are seen from the back (where you solder).