Riding on the waves of the very popular Arduino USB board is this small prototyping shield. Originally spawned with collaboration between the folks at SFE and ITP @ NYU, the Protoshield mates with the Arduino USB board and gives the user a small soldering area, two general LEDs, access to a BlueSMiRF socket, a general pushbutton switch, and most important of all – the Arduino reset switch is brought to the top level.

This comes in kit form and must be soldered together by the end user. Please note – we do not ship assembly instructions! There are a few tutorials on assembly listed below. All soldering is through-hole (relatively easy) but always check your component orientation before soldering!

The kit is pictured with the bread-board option. We highly recommend this breadboard! The bread board can be purchased separately as a related item shown below.

Kit Includes

• 1x Protoshield bare PCB
• 2x Stackable Headers 6-pin
• 2x Stackable Headers 8-pin
• 2x 5mm Basic Yellow LEDs
• 2x 330 Ohm resistors
• 1x 10k resistor
• 2x Momentary push buttons
• 2x 0.1uF Ceramic Capacitors

Features

• All Arduino pins are brought to the top level
• 5V, GND, and Raw pins are exposed as well
• BlueSMiRF socket for wireless communication between Arduinos
• 2 general use LEDs
• 1 general use button
• Reset button brought to top level

Documents

• Protoshield Schematic
• Arduino Home Page
• Assembly Tutorial by Bob Gallup (Please note: this tutorial is out of date and doesn’t take into account the stackable headers)