Prototype board with an Arduino footprint

[bitfogav]

I have put together my own prototype board with an Arduino footprint.
It's been designed to use with my SF Board here. but will be compatible with Arduino and also Firewing.. It contains a few small footprints for some small smd components, if I wish to use a certain type of chip like RTC, temp or eeprom..

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[brad]

Nice functional board bitfogav.

Do you have a link to where we can download those 3D models for the headers? Also - how are those SMD chips connected - do they just go straight to some male / female headers so that you can then interface them elsewhere?

[bitfogav]

Do you have a link to where we can download those 3D models for the headers?

I will be doing a post soon and will update here with a link for the 3D headers/components etc..

Also - how are those SMD chips connected - do they just go straight to some male / female headers so that you can then interface them elsewhere?

The SMD chips are connected to the 2 single rows of 4 pin female headers, this would mean that depending on the type of chip you wanted to add to the board would depend on how many other SMD chips you could add (due to pin compatibility). I was thinking of actually connecting several I2c components together, that is why there is only 2 single rows of female headers available to the 5 SMD footprints.

[brad]

i2c is handy like that isn't it

I have just recently started using i2c devices and once I finally figured out how the protocol worked - they are great to use and I love it that you can connect loads of different i2c devices straight to the same bus.