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New to robotics and looking for a starting platform!
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Site Admin  Joined: Thu May 24, 2012 12:15 pm Posts: 722 
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 Re: New to robotics and looking for a starting platform!
The only problem is that I want to use perfboard for quick and easy prototyping of shields, and as far as I know there no quick easy way to simulate that gap (besides drilling, but then you would probably end up wrecking the entire board and making it much, much more prone to breaking). _________________ Check out our Blog! And our Facebook page! Need help? Take a look at our updated help documentation and the ROBOTC Forums. |
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| Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:47 am |
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Joined: Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:09 pm Posts: 184 Location: Michigan USA
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Re: New to robotics and looking for a starting platform! But what about placing the two rows of headers side-by-side, and having one set with "proper" spacing. If you don't understand what I mean, I could try drawing it.
BTW, the specific spacing between the GPIO headers is 160mil (on center of pins), instead of 200mil (according to the eagle .brd file for the Leonardo). _________________ Matt |
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| Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:24 pm |
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Joined: Mon May 14, 2012 3:24 pm Posts: 43
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Re: New to robotics and looking for a starting platform!
John, For $1.25 you can buy an offset header which are bent so that they mate the perfboard onto an Arduino. You can buy them from Sparkfun http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9374 Or along with a perfboard and other headers (it is $6) from Adafruit http://www.adafruit.com/products/187 A guy named Brett Beauregard made a bunch and sells them through Sparkfun and Adafruit. He has a write up on his website about it here: http://brettbeauregard.com/blog/2009/07 ... et-header/   |
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| Fri Jun 22, 2012 6:17 pm |
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Site Admin Joined: Thu May 24, 2012 12:15 pm Posts: 722
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Re: New to robotics and looking for a starting platform! That is way easier and smarter than what I would have ended up doing. I'm still going to build an arduino board anyways, just to do it
 It's good to know those shields do exist, though, and that they are pretty cheap._________________ Check out our Blog! And our Facebook page! Need help? Take a look at our updated help documentation and the ROBOTC Forums. |
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| Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:14 pm |
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Joined: Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:34 pm Posts: 6
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Re: New to robotics and looking for a starting platform!
Absolutely! I agree, on keeping these topics separately - it makes matters practical. I am an old member of Rc.Groups.com for many years, and remember spending long hours reading a large trail of threads looking for a technical question that would ultimately end up unconclusive. I have spent some great years there and now it has evolved into this - who would have ever known. |
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