The various prototyping shields available for Arduino are a great, sturdy way to add a breadboard. The Boarduino is another nice way to securely attach an Arduino-like device to a breadboard. But if you already have an Arduino and a solderless breadboard, you can attach the two together with an amazing bit of open source technology called a rubber band.

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It’s pretty friggen great.

You can get these small solderless breadboards from either Adafruit.com or All Electronics. They’re about $5.

Run a few power and ground lines and you have a nice little prototyping infrastructure.
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And then you can start doing some real circuits.
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I can’t take credit for this innovation. As I was poking through the class notes for the Berkeley Tangible User Interfaces class, I noticed they use this method.

6 Responses to “The 1¢ Arduino under-shield”

I knew I should have patented this! I actually had items in my cart from your previous prototyping board design and then I was like….why am I paying for something I can do myself for free?

…and I thought I was being a low-tech cheapskate using sticky-back Velcro.

Why didn’t I think of that?!?!?

Hey Tod, quick question, what do you use to make your awesome diagrams, like this one from the boarduino+nunchuck post:

http://todbot.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/boarduino-nunchuck-servo-450.png

Hi Chutzpah, I use Omnigraffle.

nice trick there!

(Omnigraffe: wow, nice program, one more reason to get a mac… wish they made nice looking software like this for windows…)

Wow! I’ve had my Arduino rubber-banded onto my bread board since I got it several months ago. I was jealous of all the mini-breadboard shield owners.

Thank you for validating me!

Great PDF Arduino Notebook BTW!

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