# Share tips you have come across

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**Created:** [January 4, 2017, 7:20am UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/share-tips-you-have-come-across/428745 "2017-01-04T07:20:57Z")\
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# Lets Protect Our Arduino From Us

- This has been covered a few times. The following will show how we can save our Arduino from ourselves.

- There are quite a few new Arduino users that damage their Arduinos by accidentally shorting output GPIO pins.

- Suggest new users (and some of us oldsters too) use the following technique to prevent output GPIOs Arduino pin damage.

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 ![A](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/original/4X/a/e/7/ae7d990d3c96aa0a4347004c75450d41ca15b2c3.jpeg)

 ![B](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/original/4X/9/2/d/92d4bde337d354dfdeb69cbf5a7df1d487c8772b.jpeg)

 ![C](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/original/4X/c/3/6/c36093c8af474aa6c37baa8911c4d33a5a9077b7.jpeg)

 ![D](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/original/4X/0/7/6/0764698666ef9ecbb54ba8ebe1bf791deb12770c.jpeg)

 ![E](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/original/4X/7/9/f/79ffe716aed4fb4be21a0e4a481e8d248fa48052.jpeg)

 ![F](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/original/4X/0/5/f/05f8dae92113d6e4bef27abb40cebd90870c3100.jpeg)

 ![G](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/original/4X/e/2/4/e24fd2ffe536386a24c4b575c0443342f37caaef.jpeg)

 ![H](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/original/4X/f/d/0/fd0c26e8d309c76621305af41c12ee8a3c48cd80.jpeg)

 ![I](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/original/4X/4/4/d/44d606d1e728b4f162249d3eebb86dae7ee75c2a.jpeg)

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### Edit

 ![LED Display X10 with Prewired Jumpers A](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/original/4X/9/7/c/97cd97bee35c8b59d4e908016bcd50b9f9f18a1d.jpeg)

 ![LED Display X10 with Prewired Jumpers B](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/original/4X/d/9/e/d9e32b71e667c324d2ae8c966fd464e7e405ad14.jpeg)

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