Make your own Arduino Board- DIY instructions for Beginners (part 1)

Many people are interested in an Arduino box and doing exciting stuff with it. Some of you might be interested in preparing an Arduino board yourself. Well here are some DIY instructions for you so that you can work and create your own system. Some starter readers may wonder what the differences between Arduino Boards and Arduino Shields and what their respective uses are. In short, arduino board is the master chip, and the shield is an extended board. The former is responsible for the operation, and the latter is for some special functions. For example, the role of the music shield is to provide the function of playing music. There are other Expansion Boards that we will talk about in the following paragraph.

The cost of all the arduino starter kit is very less and easily available in the market. You can find all kinds of the arduino starter kits on the online store which are quite affordable and can basically meet all your entry demands with so many different parts and components to choose. There is no requirement of a board; you just need an Atmega chip as a main piece for the project unless you are interested in Arduino Nano (the arduino nano can be said as a prebuilt board). It is easy if you need to add more boards to your existing Arduino board. The serial connected to USB adapter chip can help the microcontroller to interface and connect to your computer. Let’s see how the process can be completed easily! Here is just an example of a basic starter arduino kit that I randomly found online, and you can choose whichever you like.

Materials available in a Starter arduino kit 

· A Prefboard

· 7805 V regulator (5V)

· LM1117T3.3 V Regulator (3.3V)

· 10uf electrolytic Capacitors - 2

· 10uf tantalum Capacitors - 2

· Green and red LED

· 150 ohm resistors - 2

· 10 K resistor

· Ceramics disk capacitors- 22pf - 2

· Ceramics disk capacitors - 0.1uf

· Crystal oscillator- 16 MHz

· Push Button Switch

· Jumper wires

· Female Headers

· Female wall wart power jack

· Male headers - 6

· Bootloader - Atmega328

· 28 pin DIC IC Socket