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WikiSandBox training The Arduino community is especially interested in tracking and

Basic Editing propagating variant do it yourself, and homebrew Arduino-compatible
Cookbook (addons) efforts to help others create their own boards. Post links to projects which
Documentation index you know about here.
DFRobotShop Rover - Tracked robotic platform with dual motors
edit SideBar
and gearbox (Canada)
Induino - Single Sided USB Clone - A Low-Cost Single Sided USB
Clone (India)
Mignon Game Kit - minimal game console with dot-matrix-display
and Arduino-library (Germany)
rDuino LEDHead - ATmega644P with RTC and 8 on-board LEDs
(Canada)
ArduPilot, Arduino-compatible autopilot (USA)
Blimpduino, Arduino-compatible robotic blimp controller board
(USA)
ArduStation, Arduino-compatible UAV ground station with LCD
display (USA)
Arduemetry, Arduino-compatible GPS data logging platform
designed for wireless telemetry (amateur rockets, high-altitude
balloons, RC vehicles, APRS, etc.) (USA)
HackTheBadge mega325 based board, Arduino compatible (USA)
Modified Pico (USA)
Oak Micros om328p - 28-pin breadboardable module smaller than
the Nano (USA)
Bhasha Technologies (India)
POP-168 Module (Thailand)
SCAXb (USA)
Bare Bones Board (USA)
CraftDuino (RUSSIA)
Really Bare Bones Board (USA)
Freeduino RS232 Serial Board (USA)
Illuminato Board (USA)
Boarduino (USA)
The Programmable Chip EEG BCI (USA)
Freeduino (Canada)
Arduclema (Spain)
Prototyping Board (Italy)
Flexi (India)
Orangutan Robot Controllers (USA)
Pololu 3pi Robot (USA)
LEDuino (Canada)
Seeeduino (China)
Miduino (Ireland)
Severino (Brazil)
Roboduino : For Robotics (USA)

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GATOR from Rugged Circuits (USA): protected from

overvoltage/undervoltage, includes plastic protective enclosure
Amanduino (Poland)
Wiseduino - with onboard RTC and EEPROM
DFRobot(China)
KTA-223 Relayduino Arduino Compatible 8 Relay 4 Digital 3 Analog
IO Controller with USB and RS485 (Australia)
KTA-225 Arduino Compatible 8 Relay 8 Analog IO Controller with
USB and RS485 (Australia)
iDuino - Breadboardable Arduino Clone (Canada)
JeeNode (Netherlands, with RFM12B wireless)
Nymph (USA)
Teensy - Native full speed USB, with non-serial device support in
Arduino IDE
ZArdino - Clone designed for mostly through hole construction
(South Africa)
Imaguino - Power-over-ethernet, opto-isolated, TFTP-booting,
industrial clone (United Kingdom)
Aarduino - SMD Atmega328 and '644 boards (South Africa)
MegaMini - Extremely small rendition of the Arduino Mega from JK
Devices (USA)
PaperduinoPcb - A self-made Paperduino (Arduino-Serial) clone in a
PCB from txapuzas.blogspot.com (Spain-Spanish)
PaperduinoPerfboard - A self-made Paperduino (Arduino-Serial)
clone in a perfboard from txapuzas.blogspot.com (Spain-Spanish)
Paperduino-stripboard - A self-made Paperduino (Arduino-Serial)
clone in a stripboard from txapuzas.blogspot.com (Spain-Spanish)
Luigino328 - A 100% Arduino compatible board with some useful
features added. You can directly buy it at robot-italy.com
1000Pads Luigino - A small Arduino compatible board, very cheap,
compatible with the 1000Pads Mini System. Available in kit or
assembled version or bare board. Probably the cheaper Arduino-
Compatible Board. You can directly buy it at robot-italy.com
Zigduino A shield-compatible Arduino clone built around the
Atmega128RFA1. Due for release Q1 2011.
EasyDuino 1.0 DIY A single side compatible Arduino clone easy to
make and shield compatible(Italy).

Making your own hardware and Arduino trademark issues

So you want to make an Arduino: guidelines and information for interested

parties
Arduino Trademark Dispute
open source forum thread
Freeduino forum thread

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Shields
A comprehensive list of both official and unofficial Arduino shields is
maintained at shieldlist.org.

How to design and build Arduino shields, complete boards that add a layer
to the arduino.
How to make
http://www.mitchellpage.com.au/research/?p=212
example shields
(Items in this area may be listed here, as well as have as in a specific
sections of Interfacing With Hardware)

Rugged Circuits Aussie Shield: for Uno/Duemilanove/Mega,

brings out all 28 I/O pins to quick-connect terminals for hooking
up wires with no tools, Arduino plugs in upside down.
Rugged Circuits Rugged Motor Driver: for Uno/Duemilanove
/Mega, drives two brush DC motors or one bipolar stepper
motor.
Rugged Circuits Gadget Shield: for Uno/Duemilanove/Mega,
comes with 3-axis accelerometer, IR detector, IR emitter, RGB
high-brightness LED, 2 potentiometers, 2 pushbuttons, 4 LED's,
visible light sensor.
Rugged Circuits Quick Shield: for Uno/Duemilanove/Mega,
brings out all 28 I/O pins to quick-connect terminals for hooking
up wires with no tools, allows another shield to plug in on top.
NuElectronics Datalog and I/O Shield: SD card carrier,
DS1302 RTC, and easy connection of sensors. See Sheepdog
Guides pages for independent comments, demos.
Critical Velocity LCD Shield, an open source shield that allows
you to easily connect a character LCD to the Arduino. Also
includes a speaker, a push button and prototyping space.
rMP3 Playback Shield - Play sounds/music and read/write
data from SD cards.
TellyMate Shield - TV-Out from your Arduino. Uses the serial
output of the Arduino to control a 38x25 character display on a
PAL or NTSC TV.
ButtonShield, a shield with 32 buttons, mode A and mode B, a
space bar, and a shift key with dual inline LEDs. It lets you turn
the Arduino into a handheld, portable microcontroller
computer, or gadget. It is controlled over serial and comes with
libraries, and is paid for by the Open Source Hardware Bank.
Propellurino, a shield with open source software for the
Arduino with a multicore prozessor. It has different interfaces

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like ps/2 mouse or keyboard, midi in, 2 channel analog out, VGA
connector and additional I/O ports. It allows you to use as a
synthesizer, display data on a VGA screen an many other things.
The Arduino controls the functions of the shield.
6-pack, an open-source shield for the Arduino that allows you
to connect six sliders to the analog input pins.
Bjoern Hartman has published the Eagle PCB files for a shield
that lets you easily use Phidget sensors with the Arduino
Eagle files for an L293-based Arduino motor driver shield.
Liquidware ExtenderShield - Put 2 shields on the Arduino at
once (Wide) or (Tall)
Adafruit Servo/Stepper/DC Motor shield - A shield that can
control 2 hobby servos and up to 2 unipolar/bipolar stepper
motors or 4 bi-directional DC motors.
SID-emulator was developed by c. haberer and SGMK to use
the arduino to control a SID-emulator chip and create old-school
8-bit sounds and lo-fi musical instruments.
Battery Shield - A shield from Liquidware that connects to the
back of the Arduino, with a USB-rechargable lithium ion battery
that can power an Arduino for 14-28 hours depending on the
circuit
MEGA Battery Pack - One of the first shields for the Arduino
Mega, that gives it between 15-27 hours of battery life in a
lithium-ion battery that is rechargeable over USB
Prototyping shields: These boards are generic shields for
building small prototyping circuits. One has a solderless
breadboard and the other has a grid of solder holes. Details
Protoshield - Copyleft files for making your own Arduino
protoshield.
Also, see todbot's DIY breadboard shield
Adafruit prototyping shield - A prototyping shield for
Arduino.
DMX shield.
Liquidware InputShield - A shield with two buttons, a joystick,
and an A-B selector switch for making games or controlling
robots.
Adafruit XPort/Ethernet shield - Allows use of an XPort
module for connecting to the Internet as a client or server.
RFIDShield: Connects ID-12 or ID-20 RFID readers to an
Arduino. Contact me at sanctitiesrares@gmail.com if you want
one.
RFIDuino - Reads and writes 13.56MHz ISO-14443A (Mifare)
RFID tags. Available as an easy-to-solder kit, through-hole only.
RFIDuino mounts upside-down on top of a Arduino, and has an
integrated antenna. Mounting hardware included.

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Liquidware TouchShield OLED touch screen shield.

TriangleShield Triangular shaped wedges to rotate other
shields 45 degrees off the Arduino.
Adafruit Wave shield - Plays any size 22KHz audio files from
an SD memory card for music, effects and interactive sound art
Adafruit GPS & Datalogging shield - Connects up a GPS
module and can log location, time/date as well as sensor data to
an SD memory flash card.
Simple Arduino Proto Shield Single Sided - This is a simple
prototyping shield single sided for Arduino NG/Diecimila. No
ISP connector, no reset button, and no leds. The advantage this
board is not occupy space with something that you will not use.
TouchShield Slide Widescreen OLED touch screen shield for
the Arduino with 320x240 resolution and runs Processing
graphics commands.
Arduino Shield Scaffold - Eagle CAD schematic and PCB files
with just the basic headers and Arduino outlines, a quick start
for your own custom shield project.
Eagle Library with Arduino Shield as a Library Part for the
Schematic and PCB - easy to use for your own Shield-designs
created with the Eagle PCB Cad Software
TankShield - gives the Arduino dual addressable, PWM'd
controlled tank treads with built in motor drivers. The Arduino
snaps onto the backside of the TankShield, so other shields can
be used on the robot
Eagle lib with Arduino pins/spacing and (working) 18S20
(Maxim 1-Wire temp sensor). Also a generic Arduino (Diecimila)
shield with pads and labels ONLY. Also a 18S20 temp sensor
schematic and board that can be daisy-chained with ordinary
phone cables.
S65-Shield for Arduino Uno, Mega, Duemilanove or Diecimila.
Hardware: 132x176 @ 65k colors Display, Rotary Encoder,
microSD Socket
mSD-Shield for Arduino Uno, Duemilanove or Diecimila.
Hardware: microSD Socket and optional TFT-Display with
Touch-Panel (MI0283QT-2: 240x320 @ 262k colors)
microSD module by http://libelium.com to read/write data
from/to SD cards easily. Get the latest code by BlushingBoy
pHduino This is a pH meter using Arduino board for pH
measurements with a glass electrode.
ServoShield The Renbotics ServoShield uses two 4017 decade
counters to drive up to 16 servos using only 4 pins (digital pins 6
to 9) and as little as one 8bit timer (Timer 2) in standard mode
or two 16/8bit timers (Timer 1 plus Timer 2 for Duemilanove and
Timer 3 for Mega) in high accuracy mode.

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MuxShield The Mux (Multiplexer) Shield adds the capacity for

up to 48 analog or digital inputs or outputs on the Arduino and
Arduino Mega using three analog multiplexers. Example code
also given.
Random Number Generator RNG shield The RNG shield is
designed using free software KiCad to generate wide spectrum
white noise suitable for sampling and later use as a source or
seed for random number generation. Example code given.
Plug Shield The Plug Shield can connect multiple I2C-based
JeePlugs to the Arduino. On-board 3.3V level converter. Works
with the Wire library (example).
VideoOverlayShield an open source shield board that overlays
text on analog video, using the Maxim MAX7456 on-screen
display chip.
8x8 LED matrix shield
Dual bi-color LED matrix shield
4-digit shield ] 4x(5x7) LED matrix shield with MAX6953
driver
Dual bi-color LED matrix shield
High Current Motor Controller Shield a high current motor
controller shield featuring 2 VNH2SP30 motor controllers. This
shield controls 2 motors up to 15 amps continuous each, 30
peak, or one motor 30 amps continuous, 60 amps peak.
Sixteen Channel High Current Shield a sixteen channel high
current shield. It carries sixteen 5A fully protected high side
MOSFET drivers capable of handling up to 30VDC. Shift register
control means it to used only four pins off the Arduino and up to
25 can be daisy-chained off a single Arduino. Library support
allows it to be used as a unipolar stepper driver for up to four
motors per board.Produced and sold by Logos
Electromechanical LLC
WeatherShield1 A Weather Shield for Arduino. Pressure,
temperature and relative humidity in a easy to use shield.
I2C Power ProtoShield by Snootlab - A prototyping shield for
Arduino with strengthened 3.3V, 5V, 12V on board through ATX
Power supply connector and an easy to use I2C bus with pull-up
resistors footprint.
Cosmo WiFi Connect - WiFi shield for Arduino. Embedded
802.11b/g Wireless Networking. Access Point, Client, Gateway,
Serial to WLAN mode Supported. 54Mbps Data Rate and Max
25Mbps Effective Data Streaming. Full-Featured Network
Protocol Stack. Management via HTTP, Telnet, Serial, UDP.
Range up to 150-200 meters.
Power ScrewShield by Snootlab - A prototyping screw shield
for Arduino with 12V on board through ATX Power supply

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connector and an easy to use SMD solder zone.

Serial LCD Schield - A serial LCD shield that only uses 2 I/O
pins. Includes 16X2 LCD, 6 navigation buttons, buzzer and LED.

Hardware for connecting to

Arduino
RobotShop Rover This is a small, compact, indoor tracked mobile
platform designed specifically around the Arduino
Diecimilla/Duemilanove. Users can customize their rover and add
shields to increase the functionality. The rover includes a servo pan
and tilt and everything you need to get started.
Bhasha Technologies FTDI USB Adapter, simple single sided
designed adapter connects to Arduino/Freeduino/Sanguino and
variants..Cheap and Cost Effective
FTDI USB to TTL cable
Wulfden/Modern Device P4/P4B RS232 to TTL serial adapter, can
be used to communicate with or upload sketches to;
generic bread-boarded or hand-wired Arduino
Modern Device BBB and RBBB(A)
AdaFruit Industries Breaduino
Sparkfun LilyPad Arduino
Pololu Arduino-ized Orangutan Robot Controller
NKC RS232 to TTL serial adapter
Inverter reference design
Sparkfun RS232 to TTL board
USB/ZigBee Converter
Relay with driver A simple relay with driver suitable for load
actuation. Available to Italy and Euro Zone from EtherMania
PaperDimmer A self-made dimmer control with triac from
txapuzas.blogspot.com (in Spanish)
PaperRele A self-made relay-card with driver from
txapuzas.blogspot.com (in Spanish)
PaperTeclado A self-made Keyboard from txapuzas.blogspot.com (in
Spanish)
PaperTeclado-Analogico A self-made Keyboard with only a analogic
input from txapuzas.blogspot.com (in Spanish)
PaperTeclado-RC A self-made Keyboard with only a digital input
from txapuzas.blogspot.com (in Spanish)
MicroPaperRele A self-made Relay-Card without driver from
txapuzas.blogspot.com (in Spanish)
PaperTeclado A homemade keyboard with a sheet of printed paper
from txapuzas.blogspot.com (in Spanish)

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PaperStepperUnipolar An Homemade unipolar stepper driver from

txapuzas.blogspot.com (in Spanish)
PaperStepperBipolar(L293D) An Homemade bipola stepper driver
with a L293D from txapuzas.blogspot.com (in Spanish)
PaperStepperBipolar(L298N) An Homemade bipola stepper driver
with a L298N from txapuzas.blogspot.com (in Spanish)

Related Initiatives
Processing is an open source programming language and
environment for people who want to program images, animation, and
interactions. Processing helped inspire Arduino and provides the code
base for the Arduino environment.

Fritzing is an open-source initiative to support designers and artists

to take the step from physical prototyping to actual product. They are
creating software to help document circuits and turn them into PCB
layouts for manufacturing.

EduWear is an EU-funded project that uses Arduino and electronic

textiles to introduce children to programming and electronics. They've
created a visual programming environment for programming Arduino
boards.

conTESTI.eu electronics is the technical area of the magazine

contesti.eu that is releasing projects and free downloadable contents
for high profile Arduino boards add-on and accessories. Embracing
open source and open hardware philosophy, all the projects published
by conTESTI.eu electronics are Arduino compatible and can also work
with non-Arduino micro controller platforms.

Other Microcontroller Platforms

Other projects similar to Arduino, for inspiration, comparison, and
collaboration. Please add comments and other platforms. Also see the AVR
Freaks list for more (click on "Development Boards"). And SparkFun also
sells lots of development board (including Arduino).

Wiring
cost: $60
chip: atmega128
software: Wiring environment

AVR-based ZX Microcontrollers

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cost: $9.95 to $89.95

chips: mega328P, mega644P, mega1284P, mega1281, mega1280
language: ZBasic, a VB-like Basic dialect with extensions
including multi-tasking and O-O
software: free ZBasic compiler and IDE including the ZX System
Library with over 300 routines (I/O, PWM, RTC, math, string
handling, etc.)

iRX2.2
cost: ??
chip: PIC16F84A
software: standard PIC tools

The CREATE USB Interface - where art meets electronics

cost: $50
chip: PIC18F4550

Modtronix - PIC based SBCs with Ethernet/USB/CAN/RS232

/RS485
cost: $25-$70
chip: PIC18F4550/PIC18F6627 and others
software: open-source Modtronix web server and standard PIC
tools

Atmex
cost: $12.75 (DIY)
chip: ATtiny2313
software: standard AVR tools

Aether ethernet board

BlueSense
BlueSense
cost: 69Eur
Physical computing solution using embedded Pure Data:
BluePD
cost: 225Eur

Product Development Kits

INEX AVR generation boards

Atmega128 mini module cost: 40Eur

Sun Spot
cost: $500 (est.)

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Scrying Low power platform for artists interested in

radio/electromagnetic phenomena
cost: 120Eur (inc. GPS, RSSI, spectrum analysis modules)
chip: Atmega128L
software: custom library, Scheme interpreter

Byron [the board] Flexible, programmable USB interface device

cost: 18Eur
chip Atmega8
software: based on V-USB library

Reed Relays
I use reed relays connected directly to the 12 IO pins. 5v/500ohm=10mA
each, Part# '22RD 5', 10+ @ US$1.10 each

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