I'm making a shield for Arduino. Now I should start soldering it.
I thought it would be easy and intuitive.
But not easy.
How I should actually solder these components together? I bought a piece of protoboard on which I should solder everything.
See the attached picture to see the setup. The little orange lines describes which things should be connected. I don't know on which side it is better to do soldering and which side up I should place the protoboard (it has soldering "pads" only on one side).
Of course I'm capable to do this somehow, but I would like to know how this would be done properly!
Suggestions, pictures, explanations are very welcome. Thank you!
you should take your components out and flip the board and insert them again, so you solder on the side that hs the copper padds, which should be the bottom side.
To connect stuff you can use short pieces of wire, or for very short distances just make solder bridges across the pads.
I use (and I think that everyone does) to have the protoboard flipped on the other side, looking at your pic. Then you can solder the components using different techniques. You could use wires if components are far the one from the other, you could use little pieces of metal wire, like legs of led or putting a lot of solder you can solder hole by hole to create the connection. F
Thanks..
But when I flip the board the pads are on the wrong side for the little pins (on the right side in picture)? Should i do some jumper wire trick here?
The pin connector is in correctly. The IC socket and the green screw terminal units need fitting to the other side of the board. That way all pins requiring interconnecting are on the same side (the solder pad side) of the board. To interlink pins you should use insulation covered wires on the solder side unless your links are not crossing any other connections. On the component side you can use bare wire providing none are crossing, but it looks neater if you again use insulated wire.
Remember to try and wind the interconnecting wire around the component pins before soldering to create a mechanical joint. Laying wires against components before soldering does work but it isn't considered good practice.
