This prototyping board allows you to design your own Arduino shield that will have a chip with up to 28-pin SOIC footprint at the heart of it. Space for an SOT23-6 packaged chip is provided as well. The board features patented Schmartboard|ez technology to make soldering surface-mount devices easy. Your SMT part will sit in grooves that hold it in place, and solder is already in the grooves. So all you need to do is put a chip in the grooves, apply flux, and use a small enough soldering tip.

The Arduino header pads are R3 compatible, and provided in both the Arduino offset and "corrected" 0.1-inch pitch. This allows you to make your shield compatible with either or both the official and third-party Arduino systems.

This is a bare board only. All connectors, buttons, resistors, capacitors, ICs, etc., must be purchased separately.

Arduino Shield Prototyping Board Features

• 1.27mm-pitch SOIC footprint for prototyping
• SOT23-6 footprint for prototyping
• Pads for on-board Arduino reset button
• Additional Push-Button switch circuit
• 5V/GND rail for easy connection
• 3.3V/GND rail for easy connection
• Pads for two general-purpose LEDs
• Pads for optional pull-up resistors (Through-Hole or SMD) for I2C
• Three spare 0805 footprints
• Surface-mount bypass footprints available on the bottom side

Arduino Shield Prototyping Board Resources

• Video showing Schmartboard|ez soldering
• Schmartboard Quick Start Guide
• Prototyping Board Dimensions
• Prototyping Board Schematic
• Prototyping Board Example Bill of Materials (giving you an idea of what parts you should use for most standard Arduino shield designs)

You also can purchase this board in a kit with components which contains all the parts in the above Bill of Materials except for the one marked in green.