What I mean is the power strip on breadboards when you just have to plug in 2 positive and negative to the arduino and the breadboard has full power. I am designing an arduino shield for arduino r4 that has an ultrasonic sensor , a buzzer, and an I2C LCD display.
Use a female DuPont header and connect all pins to the same net. Use one single-row header for V+ and one for GND.
YMMV
Do you mean you are designing a PCB?
Shield, PCB, same thing
How do these work? What pins do I attach this to?
Just making sure.
Many CAD packages already have a footprint for the R4/R3 shield.
Which package are you using?
You can get some inspiration from something like
@jim-p, last time (a day ago or so) OP was using EasyEDA.
What is a CAD package?
Also, I am using Kicad to design my shield/PCB.
I was unable to find a default R4 template in libraries.
KiCAD is a CAD package. The shield for R3 and R4 are the same. You can just use the R3 footprint as a template for a shield
Oh, I already got an R4 template.
Then you are all set to go.
Thank you very much. I hope now my pcb design journey will go smoothly.
Best of luck
Why not use the "shield" in your refrigerator then you do not have to make one. Here is an explanation. It explains that an Arduino shield is typically manufacture from a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) but it does not say all PCBs are shields as you stated, if that were true the one from the refrigerator would work.