Having now designed and proved the minDUINO v1.6 board, I’m intending to mount one on a box with a breadboard for rapid prototyping. However, it struck me that it wouldn’t be too difficult to add either a daughter board that would sit on the GPIO header (like the VAYU_NTX Expansion boards) or to add a prototyping area to the board. I elected to add a prototyping area and the result is this:

minDUINO v1.7 Prototyping Edition – Gerblook Preview

I based the prototyping area on several boards I have seen sold commercially and also added the newly created minDUINO logo and the ProjectAVR wordmark. The silkscreening for the prototype rails and connections is copied on the back of the board where the Creative Commons BY-SA and Open Hardware logos reside.

I have ordered the boards from my favorite fabrication house, Hackvana and as soon as they have arrived and I have double-checked they are OK, I will publish the design files on the minDUINO page.

This should be the last in the line of the minDUINO designs. It’s been fun getting all the details correct, making a couple of mistakes and seeing the final products working. I believe, between version 1.5, 1.6 and now v1.7, there’s a minDUINO to fit a multitude of uses. I’d now like to focus on the HAB tracker I have been designing, the VAYU-NTX. Design files are on my other website ProjectHAB.