Breadboard Arduino

Setting up an Arduino on a breadboard has become a process I have grown to love. Within a few minutes you can have a fully working Arduino platform to work with as you will see in the tutorial and video below. There have been several occasions when I was at school and quickly put together one of these for testing some ideas for a project. Plus it is just looks so neat with all the components laid out over the breadboard.

Not that I don’t like my actual Arduino board mind you… as I think I have actually become a collector of Arduino boards and shields.  You can view a larger version (1024 x 683) of this photo on my Flickr page which will help you to see the hook-ups easier.

What you will need: Below are all the components that you will need for this project. You can purchase all of them as a complete kit in the ArduinoFun Shop

• (1) Breadboard: I have used a 400 Tie Point for this example, but you can also use an 840 Tie Point for more room
• (2) LEDs
• (1) ATmega 168 or 328 with Arduino Bootloader
• (1) 16MHz Clock Crystal or 16 MHz ceramic resonator with built-in capacitors, three-terminal SIP package
• (2) 220 OHM resistors
• (1) 10K OHM resistor
• (2) 10uF capacitors
• (1) 7805 +5v Fixed Voltage Regulator
• (1) Momentary Tact Switch
• (1) 9v Battery Snap
• Various lengths of 22AWG hook-up wire
• Male header pins

ALTERNATE VIEW. This Flickr Photo shows the set up using a 16MHz Resonator.

I have put together a step by step tutorial that can be downloaded and printed out in Adobe PDF format.  The eight page document can be accessed at: http://arduinofun.com/files/byoa.pdf Feel free to redistribute it to others, just don’t link to my server for downloading, if you want to make it available on your own site, please upload it to your own server space or provide a link to this page for downloading.