Build Your Own

You are empowered. Everything about the Arduino is open. You have access to the schematics, the board layouts, the source code, the tutorials, the user forums, and everything else that is Arduino. With all this at your disposal, why not build your own Arduino?

Arduino Printed Circuit Boards

You can buy a blank Arduino-compatible PCB from several sources, collect the necessary components, solder them into place, and voilà! You can say that you built your very own Arduino. The Freeduino project (www.freeduino.org) aims to help you do just that.

You can also download the artwork for a (mostly) single-sided PCB design directly from the Arduino web site (http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardSerialSingleSided3). This lets you fabricate ...

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