Does someone make an arduino breakout board

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I really love this breakout board created by the guys at reprap came up with. However, I'd really like more 5v+ and Gnd screw term hookups. 1 for each digital pin and 1 for each analog pin would be perfect.

Has anyone made this? Or how easy would it be for someone who has never used EagleCad to create one based on their design (or does anyone want to do it form me...I'll send you cookies :slight_smile: ).

Better yet. If you design it I'll send you prototypes (depending on pricing...but it'll be at least 2)

Thanks

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If you poke around Digikey or Phoenix Contact's site, you will find many different terminal blocks to replace the standard ones on the RepRap board. Some of these have several holes for each position of the terminal block. Get a part # from Phoenix contact, then look at Digikey or Mouser to order it.

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hey sti,

reprap guy who designed the breakout board here. thanks for the compliment. =) interesting suggestion. i thought i was going overboard with the screw terminal blocks, but i guess not. the design has screw terminals on 3 sides of the square, so maybe i'll make a v1.3 with a 4th row of screw terminals that are all 5v/gnd. that would be awesome.

it probably wont be for a while though (2-3 months?). i did a production run of the v1.2 boards and i still have probably 40-50 of them to sell before i can consider a revision.

~Zach

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I've been working with the prototype eagle files from Hoeken and I've come up with this:

Does anyone want to help a noob out and fix the board up so it is proper and ready for a board shop to prototype?

Basically it's the reprap v1.3 breakout board with:
-resistors added for sensors on the
-pull up resistors added for two buttons
-changed the one 3.3V supply spot to a 5V supply.

I was liberal with the autoroute and i'm not sure if the results are any good.

http://robotmeter.com/meter/arduino-breakout.brd
http://robotmeter.com/meter/arduino-breakout.sch

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i took a look at your board, looks fine to me. i do have a couple suggestions for you:

  1. make sure you print your board layout and match up your components physically first. those resistors look a bit small
  2. feel free to change the url / name / whatever, just keep the GPL on there (dont forget to release your final source)
  3. enjoy!
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Thanks for taking a look.

I've still got some DRC error about width...but it shows up at the top and I can't figure out what it's from. (I did look on the boards and some Eagle users are having probs with the error and autorouting stuff on the newest release).

If it's ok I'll have one or two made by batchpbc (should come in under $30 :slight_smile: ) !