{"id":7714,"date":"2013-05-24T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/building-an-arduino-shield\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:22:46","slug":"building-an-arduino-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/building-an-arduino-shield\/","title":{"rendered":"Building an Arduino Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/P1010141.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/P1010141.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>No, an Arduino shield is not something that will protect you from Arduinos. Resistance IS futile! In the world of microcontrollers, &#8220;shields&#8221; are, in essence, PC boards with headers that allow you to stack them atop the main microcontroller board. So instead of the digital rat&#8217;s nest of wires that you see in my proto-board version of the DDS signal generator, we&#8217;ll have the AD9850 board mounted above the Arduino on its shield. But take heart, my fellow luddites: I have left a lot of space on the board for the construction of a DISCRETE COMPONENT, ANALOG, NON-DIGITAL amplifier.<\/strong> <strong> I&#8217;d like to get the output from the 9850 up to around 7 dbm. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, an Arduino shield is not something that will protect you from Arduinos. Resistance IS futile! In the world of microcontrollers, &#8220;shields&#8221; are, in essence, PC boards with headers that allow you to stack them atop the main microcontroller board. So instead of the digital rat&#8217;s nest of wires that you see in my proto-board &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/building-an-arduino-shield\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Building an Arduino Shield&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arduino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7716,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714\/revisions\/7716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}