PROTO-E protype development board

[protoboy]

Fresh CF campaign on Indiegogo.
http://igg.me/p/1177304/x/10232118
We offer you prototyping PCB. A bit different one.
Protoboards on market are mostly for TH (Through Hole) components and off course it's also supported here.
But you can combine it with other components since there is lot of SMT and one TQFP32 soldering place.



And pinout is fully compatible with Arduino UNO R3 boards so it's a solid start for any new Arduino shield.
The fact is... you can also make your 'duino compatible board using this PCB.
Please take a look at the campaign and share this link with other people.
All contributions, comments, suggestions and questions are welcome.

Thank You,

Proto-Electronics Team
http://proto-electronics.net

[janoc]

Interesting board, but I find it a little cramped. If you look at your first photo, do you think you would be able to solder a wire between the DIL socket and the 7 segment display without melting one of them?

Also the QFP breakout having only one hole per pin is a bit too little. At least two would help. Or, if you don't want to put two holes, put there a larger but solid pad (with no via) to solder things on. Like this I would end up soldering e.g. a pull-up resistor, a cap and a wire to a button to the same pad anyway because it won't all fit in the hole.

[protoboy]

Hi janoc,

Thank you for your interest about our PCB.

1) This is two sided board and you can easily solder wires on bottom side to connect 7 segment with DIL or any other component (check right photo with both sides displayed)

2) Same answer for TQFP. You can use same hole both on top and bottom side and you have your 2 holes to connect it with other components. If you need a specific design solution with proto-e we can help.

Hope you're satisfied with the answer. If you have any other questions we'll be glad to answer it too.

Proto Electronics team

[protoboy]

Top and bottom side of proto-e:

[tszaboo]

Show us a project you did with this board.

[mikeselectricstuff]

Too small to be very useful IME  - on any prototype you'll only use a subset of the footprints available.

If you rotated the SO area to make it a single, long row, it would give you the option to use SO18,20,24 and 28 instead of only 2x up to 16 pin

With a larger board with more stuff on it, you can use what you need and chop off any unused areas for other things.

[protoboy]

Show us a project you did with this board.

I thought you'll never ask 

So, this board is real and here is one (fast) project with it. Date, time, humidity and temperature readings.
Photos from my Facebook page.

Modules and components used:
Arduino UNO, PROTO-E, LCD1602, DHT11, Tiny RTC, 10k trimpot, wires...

Scheme:


Bottom side... wiring... hardcore. I agree... could be better...


Top side, and it's working...

Code: [Select]

// libraries & Init:
#include <LiquidCrystal.h>
#include <dht.h>

#define dht_dpin A2
dht DHT;

#include <Wire.h>
#include <RTClib.h>

RTC_Millis RTC;
// LCD pins setup
LiquidCrystal lcd(12, 11, 5, 4, 3, 2);

void setup() {
  // LCD initialization
  lcd.begin(16, 2);
  lcd.print("Initializing...");
  Serial.begin(57600);
  // following line sets the RTC to the date & time this sketch was compiled
  RTC.begin(DateTime(__DATE__, __TIME__));
  delay(1000);
}

void loop() {
    // set cursor @ row 1, pos 1
    lcd.setCursor(0, 0);

    DateTime now = RTC.now();
   
    DHT.read11(dht_dpin);
    lcd.clear();
    lcd.print(now.day(), DEC);
    lcd.print(".");
    lcd.print(now.month(), DEC);
    lcd.print(".");
    lcd.print(now.year(), DEC);
    lcd.print(". ");
    lcd.print(now.hour(), DEC);
    lcd.print(":");
    lcd.print(now.minute(), DEC);
    lcd.print(" ");
    // set cursor @ row 2, pos 1
    lcd.setCursor(0, 1);
    lcd.print("H=");
    lcd.print(int(DHT.humidity));
    lcd.print("% ");
    lcd.print("T=");
    lcd.print(int(DHT.temperature));
    lcd.print("C ");
   
    delay(3000);
}

More projects coming soon...

[protoboy]

New Arduino compatible prototyping board



Visit our campaign page:
http://igg.me/at/proto-e/x/10232118

Shrinkify your Arduino projects

Thank you,
Zeljko Krnjajic from Proto Electronics team

[protoboy]

Avoiding SMD components in prototyping or using bunch of various adapters?

Working with Arduino?

Solution is here:



Visit campaign page @indiegogo: http://igg.me/p/1177304/twtr/10232118

Share your thoughts about this product with us

Zeljko from Proto Electronics team


 

[protoboy]

Last hours of campaign...
Big THANK YOU to all contributors and helpers.



Zeljko from Proto-Electronics Team