If you haven’t started Arduino programming yet, it’s about time. The Arduino is a microcontroller board originally made for Interaction Design students in Italy. It was specifically developed to make it easy to start programming microcontrollers – even if you have no technical background.
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Arduino Shield Tutorial – Make Your Own Shield
In this Arduino shield tutorial I will show you how to create a 4×4 LED matrix Arduino shield. You can make any shield you want using this method. The tutorial consists of three videos: How to plan and create schematics How to design a circuit board How to get prototype circuits made