Powering the Arduino Mega with a Lithium Battery

This is a small and short tutorial that explains step by step how to connect the Mega Lithium Backpack open source hardware shield to the Arduino Mega, to give it battery life, and allow the Mega to be untethered from the computer.

The parts were all taken from the liquidware shop, and the antipastohw.blogspot.com blog.

Step 1: Collect all the parts

For this step, you'll need an Arduino Mega, a Lithium Backpack, two short wires, and about 5 minutes. Technically, 5 minutes isn't a part, but it's worth something nonetheless, and it shouldn't take longer than that no matter what.

Comments

[grampafish]

did you get the mega to read the SD card on the touch shield and display the images on the screen? i am asking because i have that problem. my touch shield same as yours only displays images from the SD card on my duemilanove.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[Pyrotechnic-Robot]

so would you recommend getting the arduino mega?

[inthebitz]

i think the mega's a fine version of the arduino... although personalyl i haven't found a use for all those pins yet. i still use my duemilanove more, probably because i have more shields for it...

[andrew101]

dont the sheilds fit on the mega?

[uberdum05]

Yeah, they should do because it is just like a diecimila / duemelove but with more IO pins on it :)