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Hi all,

I'm thinking of buying a dueminalove, but I had a few questions beforehand:

  1. does any shield work with any arduino? Or do only certain shields work with a certain company's arduino?

  2. can you use more than one shield on a with a given board? Meaning can I have both an ethernet shield and a motor driver shield attached to the same board, somehow stacked or something?

  3. how difficult is it to allow the dueminalove to use battery power?

Thanks.

qin__23

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  1. No there are only some arduinos that can use shields models like the nano and the lily pad are not the right shape to take a shield.

  2. Not always, some use the same pins and others won't physically fit stacked together. Other can be used together, no hard and fast rules.

  3. Grit you teeth and allow it to use batteries, after all it is easier than allowing your teenage daughter to go on her first date. :wink:

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Thanks Grumpy_Mike.

Regarding the shields, I was mostly concerned with will an adafruit or asynclabs shield work with a duemanilove from any manufacturer?

qin__23

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the official design has a flaw in the way the pins are laid out spacing wise, most clones and shields take this into account

some like the Seeeduino have an option for both the odd spacing or hobby friendly spacing (if you want to make your own shields on perfboard for example)

others like the barebones board, or nano can not use shields (arguably you could make a shield board for them but ...)

over all, if it looks like the one on the homepage, you should be OK

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Great, thanks Osgeld.

qin__23