While troubleshooting a project, I came across a very strange phenomenon. When you connect the UNO board to ground and connect 5V to any of the input pins, the board behaves virtually the same as if you powered it normally. If you would like to try this, load the blink example, connect the ground on…

Arduino UNO powered through input pin

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