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How To Make Your Own Arduino Board 1
How To Make Your Own Arduino Board 1
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Step 1: Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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Author:Higgs Boson
I love physics and playing cello, and have been interested in electronics, but have just recently gotten into doing projects.
The only down side is that some parts of the arduino are kind of hard to build on perfboard. Most notably the Serial to usb adapter chip, which allows the microcontroller
to interface with the computer through usb. You could use a good old RS232 jack, but they are not on a lot of newer computers. So to program your homemade board
you will either need a break out board which does have the chip (get one here: http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_2117341_-1 ),
or an arduino Uno or clone board to program the chip ( I used the former.)
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1. finished project
2. arduino uno
Step 1: Materials
All of these materials can be purchased as a bundle here (except for the power jack and female headers:
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Step 2: Install the socket
The first step is after finding a good sized perfboard is to find a good place for the chip, and place the IC socket where you want it paying attention to the notch witch will
be matched with the notch on the chip. also find where you want your power jack. You should place it on the edge of the board probably in the corner. I widened the holes
on the board with a 1/16 inch drill bit, but still had to fold the leads on the jack using needle nosed pliers to get it to fit through. On the jack, the pin on the back connecting
to the post on the inside is positive, and the one on the bottom connected to the metal on the inside is ground (the pin on the side is not needed. You could solder it for
extra support, but I just broke it off). Remember this when connecting the regulators.
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1. 10uf
2. from power jack
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1. the LED turns on. That's always a good sign.
2. the LED turns on. That's always a good sign.
3. the LED turns on. That's always a good sign.
4. the LED turns on. That's always a good sign.
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1. 10k resistor to 5v
2. button to ground
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1. 16 MHz crystal oscillator
2. 22pf caps. (kind of hard to see)
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1. indicator LED on digital pin 13 (pin 19 on the chip
This process is very tedious, so just have some patience and you should be fine. Also planning out how you are going to connect everything before hand will go a long
way. You will probably have a lot of wires intersecting. after a while I was forced to start connecting pins on the bottom of the board to prevent this.
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1. Wires began intersecting a lot, so I started to make a lot of connections on the
bottom of the board.
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1. connections on the bottom of the board
You can use these pins to program the chip using the breakout board mentioned earlier.
Anything you can do with the arduino (except serial read, and other things that require constant interface with the computer) can be done on the Homemade arduino in
this way.
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Step 13: Finished
Now you are finished, and can use your new homemade arduino prototyping board for any project you want. As always if you have any questions comments, of problems
leave a comment and I will do my best to help you. Also please rate this instructable.
Have fun!
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