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Compact Protoboard Arduino type thing yea

Compact Protoboard Arduino type thing yea
This ible is for the building of my small, almost matchbox size, arduino compatable board.
As seen in this ible.. http://www.instructables.com/id/Pocket-Ardiuno-kit/

I experemented with the one in this ible to see how it can be impreoved, but the consept is the same and so is the build to a degree.

Origonally made as a pocket board for taking places with a few components for messing with.

Basic specs:

     - atmega168/8/328
     - TTL interface
     - 5V lines
     - reset button
     - power LED
     - Digital and Analog pins
     - Lilypad or normal bootloader (depending on chip and weather u have a crystal or not)

Options: (depending on the setup you are making it for)

     - 9V input and 7805 regulator for 9V battery power
     - Crystal/oscilator for non lilypad bootloader

Pictured is the origonal used in the linked ible.
But for this ible i shall be running through the process by building a new one just for you :3


 
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Step 1Parts and Tools

Parts and Tools
You will need:

 - Protoboard (i used the 3 hole strip type, but may be easier with full strip)
 - 28 pin DIP socket
 - 1K resistor X 2
 - 1 x LED
 - 1 x .01uf capacitor
 - 1 x 8 pin header (5v and TTL)
 - 1 x 12 pin header (digital pins)
 - 1 x 6 pin header (analog pins)
 - 2 x 4 pin header (power rail)
 - 1 x pushbutton
 - wire (i got mine from an old printer cable. lots aof wire and lots of colours ;) )

Optional:

 - 1 x 16 Mhz Crystal or resinator/oscilator
 - 2 x .01 uf capacitors (only if using crystal, but you may get away with not using them)
 - 1 x Diode 1n4001
 - 1 x 7805 regulator
 - 1 x .01uf capacitor (for regulator)
 - 1 x 9V battery clip

Tools:

 - Soldering iron
 - Solder
 - flux (its good S**t :3 )
 - clippers of some kind (for cutting wire and legs.. not your legs tho, that would be bad.. cut the component legs.. :P )
 - helping hands type thing or another pcb holder for soldering

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28 comments
Aug 16, 2010. 9:31 AMbigjeff5 says:
I like how clean your first model is, it's a lot neater than what you finished up the 'ible with, however the second is impressively small (the first was impressively small, actually, but the second is even smaller!). I'm definitely going to do something similar to both of these for a project I'm working on, and I must steal that threading idea for the wire connections.
May 9, 2010. 5:59 PMcdousley says:
Project A++
instructions C-
Aug 4, 2010. 10:52 PMcdousley says:
your project inspired me to build this
Aug 8, 2010. 10:02 PMcdousley says:
yea ive been working on it it but ill probably make it soon :D ill post pics
Aug 9, 2010. 7:58 PMcdousley says:
hey do you think surface mount pads on the board for prototyping with smd would be useful? i never do any surface mount so idk much about it and i love the picture (:
Aug 12, 2010. 5:59 PMcdousley says:
what exactly is noisy circuits i never really understood it
Aug 13, 2010. 4:39 PMcdousley says:
ok :D i did have one but i think i took it out i need to add it back
Aug 11, 2010. 6:35 PMcdousley says:
:D
Aug 9, 2010. 7:45 PMcdousley says:
YEAAA!!! :D
May 24, 2010. 12:57 PMcdousley says:
I usually just make sideshows but i think my problem is that i couldn't find my jumper wires and used all uninsulated  copper wire salvaged from a co-ax cable
May 8, 2010. 5:56 PMcdousley says:
I got all my parts today, could you make a schematic because I am really  confused
May 4, 2010. 7:27 PMcdousley says:
I know that ive been flooding you with comments but i need one last thing,
could you show me a pic of the bottom of your homemade breadboard mine was an Epic fail
Apr 26, 2010. 3:59 PMcdousley says:
Cool!
arduino type thing yea
lol
Feb 23, 2010. 3:51 PMtroseph says:
 This is awesome. Thanks!
Feb 13, 2010. 1:02 AMfrollard says:
Good ible on barebones when it comes to really really really barebones (protoboard)


Mar 4, 2010. 3:44 AMbillbillt says:
This is pure genius!

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