Comments on: How to make a shield for your arduino http://blog.arduino.cc/2012/02/17/how-to-make-a-shield-for-your-arduino/ Sun, 19 May 2013 23:29:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Andrew Neil http://blog.arduino.cc/2012/02/17/how-to-make-a-shield-for-your-arduino/comment-page-1/#comment-79540 Andrew Neil Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:16:43 +0000 http://arduino.cc/blog/?p=3170#comment-79540 (2) and (3) are in the wrong order!

You need to have a design before you can prototype it!

In fact, you need at least an outline design before you can select the parts to implement it!

1) Capture your requirements – what do you want to do?
2) Design a solution – including selecting parts.
3) Prototype it – and tweak the design as required until it fully meets the requirements.
4) Capture your final schematic
5) PCB Layout
6) PCB Fabrication

Of course, none of this is specific to Arduino!

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