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BreadShield

BreadShield is a shield that maps Arduino pins to breadboard ties without jumper wires. It inserts into both of them, firmly bridging them together mechanically and electrically.

A breadshield

Watch this video to see BreadShield in action!

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Why

Many projects start with connecting an Arduino and a breadboard using jumper wires. But jumper wires can easily become too many to manage, forming a mess of spaghetti that is difficult to trace, debug, and swap:

Too mamy jumper wires can lead to a messy project that is hard to manage.

#Introducing BreadShield: The Arduino shield for breadboards

Like you, we have suffered enough. One day we asked, what if all of those messy jumper wires could become one shield? So BreadShield was born. With BreadShield, the messy project above can be simplified into:

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BreadShield vs. jumper wires

Connecting Arduino Uno to a HD44780 display, in jump wires. vs. in BreadShield

Connecting Arduino Uno to two servo motors, in jump wires. vs. in BreadShield

Connecting Arduino Uno to a row of LEDs, in jump wires. vs. in BreadShield

No more choosing between shields or breadboards

Before, you cannot use shields together with breadboards because the jumper wires occupy sockets for shields. No more! With BreadShield, you can use both, simultaneously:

By BreadShield, you can use shields and breadboard together.

Pinout of Breadshield

BreadShield pinout

Organization of files in the repo

  • KiCAD: the KiCAD files of the PCB
  • demo: programs and documentations for demos
  • images: some images of BreadShield

License

BreadShield (c) by Forrest Sheng Bao et al.

BreadShield is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

You should have received a copy of the license along with this work. If not, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

A copy of this license is in the file license.md.

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