Full Arduinoboy – still no soldering needed!
April 8th, 2009
Last night I put together my Arduinoboy – it’s messy, and its only on a breadboard, but it works – and it’s possible to do without any soldering at all. Having said that, I did do a bit of soldering, but it wasn’t totally necessary (mostly I just wanted to play with my new soldering iron…)
Anyway, here’s a quick vid of it in action. Doesn’t really show much, but whatever…
I might take it apart and rebuild it again, photographing each step. When I build it “for real”, I’ll definitely be doing that.
More soon!
Is your final version going to be solder-free as well? Would be interested to see how you go about that. I’m terrible at soldering and made a terrible mess of mine.
Nope, the final version will be soldered – I want to keep all the jumper leads I used for when I’m playing about with other stuff. This is a fully working Arduinoboy, though, and would be fine to stick in a box or whatever – although to do that, it might be a good idea to glue all the bits into place.
Ah I see. Can you get good results gluing components to a breadboard? Tried searching in the past but not found anything useful.
There’s also this:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/b70c/
which I may well try at some point…
Well, all the connections are already made by inserting the components into the board – the glue would just stop them coming loose.
this is really amazing,
how are you getting that sound, lsdj? i’m sitting here messing with my lsdj trying to get that sound, could you give me the parameters?
and do you think you will make these to sell?
@Deej
Yeah, that’s LSDJ. I’m not too sure of the exact parameters, but its just an arp (probably 0, 3, 7) or something combined with the W command.
I’m not sure it would be worth making these to sell as they’re so simple to make – plus, it would hardly be fair selling these when I didn’t design it
Hi,
trying to build an arduino boy
just wondering did you build this from the “schematic” from here, did you make your own schematic, or did you find a schematic/parts list from somewhere else?
This is ace, do you need to program the chip with any software?? scienceguy8’s instructable skips a few key steps i think, i’d be in debt to you for a step-by-step for total, utter and shamefully uneducated chippers such as myself