Arduino From Scratch Part 16 – Prototype Plan8 Feb 2016In Part 15, we laid out our design requirements. I’ve thought about them over the intervening weeks and I’ve made…
Arduino from Scratch Part 15 – Design Requirements1 Dec 2015In Arduino From Scratch Part 14, I identified some of the things I think could be improved for a Rheingold…
Arduino from Scratch Part 14 – Product Development26 Oct 2015With Part 13, we finished duplicating the official design with a somewhat cleaner schematic, leaving us with a BOM and…
Arduino from Scratch Part 13 – Full Arduino Uno R3 Schematic and BOM19 Oct 2015We’ve identified each subsystem and noted the type, value and purpose of every single component in the UNO R3 design.…
Arduino from Scratch Part 12 – ATMEGA328P Schematic and Headers13 Oct 2015In part 11, the DTR and RESET system was taken apart piece by piece. Now we finally get to wrap…
Arduino from Scratch Part 11 – ATMEGA328P DTR and RESET8 Oct 2015In part 10, we opened up the ATMEGA328P can of worms, looking at bypass caps, serial termination and the ceramic…
Arduino from Scratch Part 10 – ATMEGA328P Subsystem7 Oct 2015In Part 9, we got in-depth with the 16Mhz crystal connected to the 16U2. Now it’s time for the big…
Arduino from Scratch Part 9 – 16MHz Crystal Oscillator3 Sep 2015In Part 8, we covered all the different subcircuits surrounding the ATMEGA16U2 microcontroller, with the exception of the 16MHz Crystal…
Arduino from Scratch Part 8 – ATMEGA16U2 Subsystem2 Sep 2015In Part 7, we pulled together all the parts necessary to connect our USB Type B socket to a microcontroller.…
Arduino from Scratch Part 7 – Arduino USB Connection25 Aug 2015In Part 6, we covered the how and the why of the Pin 13 LED, along with the related op-amp…