I’ve been working with a super minimal Arduino setup recently. After seeing Alex’s awesome Arduino/ATmega breadboard header, where he notes there’s no room on the PCB for pin labeling, I wondered if it would be possible to make a small sticker that goes on the ATmega chip, labeling the pin names.
Here’s my first attempt:
And in use:
This was created by printing on a full-page sticker then laser cutting it to shape. I could have also just cut out the sticker with scissors, or used regular printer paper and double-sided tape.
Some files if you want to try this out yourself:
- arduino-atmega-sticker.eps — EPS of just the sticker itself.
- arduino-atmega-sticker.svg — SVG version
- arduino-atmega-sticker.pdf — PDF version
- arduino-atmega-sticker-lasercut.cdr — Coreldraw file containing instructions & registration marks for printing then laser cutting your own sticker.
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I used your label in my project, here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/linux-works/3875367596/
applied the label with some double-stick foam tape on the chip ;)
cheers
/bryan
Hi Bryan,
Nice! Looks like a much sturdier implementation of a minimal Arduino than anything I’ve done. Plus, adding the reset button and FTDI serial header makes it a *lot* easier to use I bet.
“I could have also just cut out the sticker with scissors, or used regular printer paper and double-sided tape” – then why didn’t you? :D
Well, if I had a laser cutter I guess I’d also use it for everything possible :P
Haha, dor, yeah. After I finished making it, I realized “huh, I should’ve just used scissors”. But ended up using this sticker idea as a way of lining up the output from a printer with the laser cutter.
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Brilliant Idea Tod! May I suggest including multiple copies of the image on the same page? It may save some paper, and in all likelihood, people would need more than one.
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