I have two of these small 2560 boards. One is running Flashforth and sending MIDI signals to my Yamaha PSR-290 piano or my Alesis drum module or the Adafruit Music Maker.
5:55 I have screwed aluminium strips to the sides of my PCB's to reduce the height that they take up inside the enclosure too. No standoffs required. 👍
Using dual-row headers in other projects, I used two pieces of Vero side-by-side to connect to the dual-row socket I was using, one row soldered to each piece of Vero. That was easier for me than cutting a slit between two rows of holes on a single piece of Vero and hoping my soldering wouldn't wick across the cut afterwards.
The big size atmega 2560 clones can be had these days fairly cheap with bundles of a ramps board and sets of stepper drivers, as result of repraps and china stocking. It's possible to either buy a bigger 2560 for 30 bucks or a 2560 in bundle or a 2560 with 4x stepper drivers, a lcd with a rotary encoder and the ramps board for 30 bucks.
Interesting Ken. I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a protoboard for the Scamp3, so people can make breadboard projects more permanent. Do you think this is something that would be useful?
Yes .. after writing code for the Scamp, the next step would be to place it on a proto board and then into an enclosure. The user would source their own components. Check out this proto board that was used in schools. ruclips.net/video/hkX28ci29A4/видео.html A Scamp mounted on a proto board with a prototyping area with battery support for a 18650 that can be slid into a popular enclosure would be ideal. The biggest hurdle for students is the enclosure.
Very cool techniques! I particularly like the enclosure with a slide-in board idea. Thanks for sharing!
Glad it was helpful!
I have two of these small 2560 boards. One is running Flashforth and sending MIDI signals to my Yamaha PSR-290 piano or my Alesis drum module or the Adafruit Music Maker.
5:55 I have screwed aluminium strips to the sides of my PCB's to reduce the height that they take up inside the enclosure too. No standoffs required. 👍
Love these prototyping ideas !
Using dual-row headers in other projects, I used two pieces of Vero side-by-side to connect to the dual-row socket I was using, one row soldered to each piece of Vero. That was easier for me than cutting a slit between two rows of holes on a single piece of Vero and hoping my soldering wouldn't wick across the cut afterwards.
The big size atmega 2560 clones can be had these days fairly cheap with bundles of a ramps board and sets of stepper drivers, as result of repraps and china stocking. It's possible to either buy a bigger 2560 for 30 bucks or a 2560 in bundle or a 2560 with 4x stepper drivers, a lcd with a rotary encoder and the ramps board for 30 bucks.
great job
I didn't even know they did that board, appreciated
Interesting Ken. I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a protoboard for the Scamp3, so people can make breadboard projects more permanent. Do you think this is something that would be useful?
Yes .. after writing code for the Scamp, the next step would be to place it on a proto board and then into an enclosure. The user would source their own components. Check out this proto board that was used in schools. ruclips.net/video/hkX28ci29A4/видео.html
A Scamp mounted on a proto board with a prototyping area with battery support for a 18650 that can be slid into a popular enclosure would be ideal. The biggest hurdle for students is the enclosure.
You could also rotate the board 90 degrees and place it on veeroboard.
All the horizontal pins would be shorted together.
there are other prototyping boards where each hole is an island
How do you guys learn this