This Arduino board is larger than your head, and it really works
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In abstract:
- PCWorld studies on YouTuber UncleStem’s spectacular 7x scaled Arduino board that maintains full performance regardless of its large measurement.
- The outsized board cleverly integrates a hidden Arduino Nano for core operations whereas that includes working LEDs, buttons, and parts wired by way of plywood layers.
- This artistic mission demonstrates the potential for combining 3D printing with electronics, with downloadable recordsdata obtainable for makers wanting to copy the construct.
Arduino doesn’t have the cultural cachet of its fellow single-board participant Raspberry Pi, however it’s arguably extra standard for individuals who like to interrupt out the soldering iron. Arduino boards are easy, environment friendly, and small, making them nice controllers or enhancements for quite a lot of electronics tasks. However what if the Arduino itself is the mission? And what if that mission is large? Like, actually, stupidly large?
UncleStem on YouTube (noticed by The Register) requested one thing much like that idea, creating an Arduino board that’s precisely scaled and seven occasions bigger than the actual factor. It’s principally a 3D printing showoff… however all these parts truly perform. Clearly, that massively outsized USB port and DC barrel port gained’t work with normal components, and issues just like the capacitors and resistors aren’t truly big parts. However the LEDs, reset button, and even feminine contact pins inside these large black pin headers truly work!
How? Effectively, there’s a real Arduino (a smaller Nano mannequin, not the usual Uno) hiding between layers of plywood, that are pretending to be the printed circuit board through a collection of decals. All of the purposeful parts are discreetly wired by way of three layers so that they don’t present. That signifies that this large factor truly works as an ordinary Arduino, albeit one with out connections to male pins.
As a ultimate contact, UncleStem created an outsized LED—an actual, small LED inside a large translucent housing with outsized copper energy pins—full with an outsized housing for a resistor. He reveals off the essential blink command on an ordinary Arduino, then the identical one on his 7x model. Success! Those that wish to comply with in his footsteps can use his 3D print recordsdata to comply with alongside.
