My home-made Seeeduino Mega 2560. FUN, relatively CHEAP and it works!

I want to encourage people to make your own boards/PCB's... Its a lot of fun, very rewarding, not difficult and cheap!

I just ordered 10 Seeeduino PCB's at iTead ($2,70 per board incl. shipping), got the components and began soldering... For the first time 0402 and QFP but it went very well.

Of-course you need very good eyes or if not, like me, a stereo microscope and a very fine pitch soldering tip. I don't drink but being sober when soldering also helps a lot.

Thanks to Nick Gammon for the excellent sketch to program the empty chip.

I did had to use a (non-electrolytic) 100nF capacitor between reset (pin 10) and ground before I got the sketch working.

see the result here...