Arduino ProtoShield Quickstart Guide

This Tutorial is Retired!

Arduino ProtoShield v25 has been retired. If you are looking for the most recent version, check out our revised SparkFun Arduino ProtoShield!

View the updated tutorial: SparkFun Arduino ProtoShield Hookup Guide

≡ Pages

Contributors:

jimblom,

bboyho

Resources and Going Further

Now that you've successfully got your Arduino ProtoShield up and running, it's time to incorporate it into your own project!

For more information, check out the resources below.

Need some inspiration for your next project? Check out some of these project tutorials. You may also want to add/review the comments on that page or do a Google search for more example projects that use the ProtoShield.

Customizing LilyPad LED Colors

A short guide to creating a rainbow of new LilyPad LED colors at home!

Twinkling Trick or Treat Bag

Make a light up goodie bag with conductive thread, LEDs, and the LilyTwinkle!

Clap On Lamp

Modify a simple desk lamp to respond to a double clap (or other sharp noise) using parts from the SparkFun Inventor's Kit v4.0.

Jetson Nano + Sphero RVR Mash-up (PART 2)

We took two of our biggest robotics partnerships from the previous year and shazamed them together into one robot to rule them all!

Have a suggestion for how we can improve this quickstart guide? Concepts not explained clearly? Need more example code? Please let us know. You can leave a comment below or email us spark@sparkfun.com. Also let us know if this is the most awesome Quickstart guide you have ever encountered and we will stop trying to improve it.

View as a single page

← Previous Page
Project Examples