Chapter 3 Make Your Own Minimal Arduino

The Really Bare Bones Board (RBBB) and its schematic were originally designed by Paul Badger of Modern Device. It’s pretty much the bare minimum needed for a useful Arduino-type development board. The goal of this chapter is to delve into the details of building a more complicated schematic and board layout, and to learn the workflow of the Electrical Rule Check and Design Rule Check. We’ll use through-hole parts, but you can easily substitute surface mount parts. A surface mount version of the project is provided with the support files to this book.

Although this is a minimalist project, there are still ...

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