When a project is close to completion and you want to make it more finalized, how do we make sure wiring does not fall out of the arduino pin holes? If I were to have 22gauge wire in an arduino pin going to a protoboard, could that wiring not just fall out?
I am just learning btw, so this may be a dumb question.
Finalise as in using your arduino board in a project long term?
Generally speaking, the Arduino boards are really designed as prototype boards, but can obviously be used as final products too. Just having wires going into the pin holes isnt really an ideal situation for a final product.
You are best to look up 'stand along arduino' and make a new PCB with the required parts on it so there are no jumper wires hanging all over the place.
When I say finalize, I mean for utilizing it everyday sort of thing. My projects will be home projects so I dont need production ready finalizing.
What about making my own shield? I would have my Arduino, Wishield, and then my own shield with a few components on it. This way sounds like it should work (at least in my head it does).
Well what I use in cases like that is to cut a header strip to the size I need and solder wires to the short pins, and plug the longer pins into the shield connector. However, I do also suggest moving projects over to a standalone board and keep the Arduino as a prototyping platform.
Lefty
Ok awesome! I think where my knowledge is right now i wouldn't be able to move to a standalone board and successfully wire everything up.
Your welcome. When you do gain the experiance with learning and building with the Arduino you will later find that doing standalone can be pretty simple and cheap. I haven't used this parts set below yet, but it give you an example of the components involved and their costs:
Lefty
When a project is close to completion and you want to make it more finalized, how do we make sure wiring does not fall out of the arduino pin holes? If I were to have 22gauge wire in an arduino pin going to a protoboard, could that wiring not just fall out?
You could use our Quick Shield. There's a similar shield using screw terminals too (ScrewShield?)
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The Quick Shield: breakout all 28 pins to quick-connect terminals
Wow that is definitely cheaper. What about if I want to use the Wishield from Asynclabs? I dont think I can just find those components easily to use on a standalone board (not open source i don't think).
Hi bmilleker,
I would recommend using a screw terminal shield like the Quick Shield or by soldering to header pins. I like the solder to header pins and then use small heat shrink for strain relief.
I have ordered a YellowJacket with built in Wifi from Asynclabs. I am going to use this board for my finalized version.