Diy Arduino

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I created this barebone Arduino back in 2017 when I was still in school and trying to learn about electronics and microcontrollers in general. I can’t find the guide I used back then, but I did find a similar one on the Arduino website.

I changed the breadboard for a perfboard to make it more permanent and used a pre-flashed atmega to make it a lot easier. So I only needed to solder all the necessary components like the oscillator and the pinheader for the microcontroller pins. I added a power led and a linear voltage regulator, so I could power the board with a 9V battery or even a 12V power supply.

For programming, I used an FTDI breakout board and added a pinheader to the perfboard so I could just plug the PCB into the pinheader connect USB and use the Arduino IDE for programming and flashing new code to the Atmega. Because the Arduino Bootloader was preflashed, it was an easy task.

With my custom board, I even played around with the attiny to create smaller circuits. I could use my Arduino as a programmer and for burning bootloaders, thus creating new projects with microcontrollers.

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Diy Arduino