I'm using a Freetronix Eleven with a Freetronics 16x2 LCD Shield v2.0 plugged onto it. That makes the whole thing quite thick, so I don't want to use a third shield (something like a wing shield) to run external connections onto the arduino if I can avoid it.
Are the holes in the prototyping area electrically connected to the pins on the headers?
If so, which pins connect to which holes (there is one more hole than there are pins on each row on the top four rows).
If they aren't connected up by default, how do I connect wires to the arduino pins while the LCD shield is plugged on top?
The LCD on the LCD shield is excellent, by the way. Very bright and retro-futuristic, though I don't know how long a 9V transistor battery will last with the backlight on. I'm not so happy with the tiny microswitch pillars. They feel as if they might break under sideways pressure. I'm planning on 3D printing a case for my device, and I'm trying to work out a way of supporting the switch pillars so they don't break in frantic button-mashing mode. Because, let's be honest, if there are game-like buttons on a device, they _will_ be mashed!
Since I've already got a single-button morse-code interpreter set up as the control interface, I don't really _need_ all those switches anyway. But since they are there, I might as well use them for something, I guess
Or maybe not. Maybe I'll just buy myself a single big arcade-machine button.Andrew Roberts
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