Make: Shield Kit

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About Make: Shield Kit

If you've ever done any bread boarding, you know that it's great for sketching out an electronics idea, but terrible at storing a more permanent prototype. In the same way, fixing mistakes on soldered protoboard can be frustrating and messy. The Arduino design strikes a great balance between these two options by exposing the pins of the microcontroller on top of the board in four female headers. Using these, you can snap in pre-made daughter boards, or shields, to add different applications. With the proper wires, you can easily use the Arduino with a standard breadboard to test out a circuit. With the Maker Shield, however, you can transfer your working prototype to a shield that snaps into an Arduino just like a pre-built shield. The Maker Shield makes it easy to build your own permanent prototypes as shields. Advanced users might want to stack another shield (e.g an Ethernet shield) on top of the Maker Shield. This isn't a problem since the Maker Shield kit provides stackable header pins. The Maker Shield provides a jumper that allows you to select between either 5V or 3.3V signals on the potentiometer. Please note: Assembly required (soldering). Does not include a microcontroller. Also available in the Ultimate Microcontroller Pack for Arduino. The Maker Shield kit includes: Custom PCB Reset button User definable button User definable LED's (Red & Green) User definable potentiometer User selectable 3v3 or 5v jumper for the potentiometer (works with Arduino & Netduino) Male 'stacking' header pins brings up all the micro-controller pins 3v3 Header pins 5v headers pins Ground header pins power filtering capacitors (1) 6-pin ICSP header pin (in the same location as the Arduino, allowing you to stack shields that need it) Resistors for the LED's 5v5 rail Ground rail Prototyping area (our mini breadboard fits perfectly)The Maker Shield is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.