pcb sandbox assembly tutorial

PCB SandBox

Assembly Instructions

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PCB SandBox:

PCB SandBox Assembly Instructions

This Arduino Shield is great for students and hobbyists that want to start playing with electronics and programming on the Arduino platform.

It comes with plenty of analog and digital devices giving a great creative potential to users:

1 potentiometer2 buttons1 RGB Led2 colored LEDs1 InfraRed Receiver1 buzzer2 LDRs.

Every component can be connected using a pitch jumper or a jumper wire, which gives full control of every single connection.

Components List:

2k2 1% LEADED75 5% LEADED10k 1% 1/2WLDRBUZZ LEADEDLED RED LEADEDSWITCH PUSH LEADED Straight 50mA100nF 50V RADIALTSOP38238LED RGB COMMON CATHODE LEADEDMALE HEADER VERTICAL 18WAY 2.54MMARDUINO ANALOG UNOARDUINO DIGITAL H UNOARDUINO POWER UNOPOT 10k VERTICAL LINEAR LEADED

1/4W1/4W1/4WTO18Buzz 6.565mm6x6mm2,54MM2,54MM X 32,54mm x 4SIP 18Header 6x1Header 10x1Header 8x1 8.5mmPTV09A

R3,R4,R5, R2,R1R10R9, R7R8, R6D9D2, D1B1,B2C1IRD3-

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Ceramic Capacitor 100nF LDR’s Arduino Stackable Headers


Place the pcb on a flat surface, reading “Artica” on the top right corner.

Start by placing the components following a basic rule, the lower and smaller components are the first to go.

Let’s start with the resistors, and we will start by the 5 x 2k2 resistors, and they go where it says: R3,R4,R5, R2,R1

NOTE: resistors don’t have polarity and can be placed in any orientation.



Next comes the LDR’s resistors, they are 10K .

They should be placed in the zones R9, R7.

The buzzer resistor goes to the R10 label.


It’s a good time to solder the 100nF ceramic cap, find the C1 label.


Let’s go now for the two colored LED’s.

Notice they have a longer leg, this longer leg is the positive side of the LED.

Look out for the D1 and D2 label.


The longer lead goes into the circle hole, the shorter lead goes to the square hole.

Repeat the process for the other LED.


The RGB Led is a very specific LED. It has three small colored LED’s inside.

Check for the longer lead, and place it on the square hole.


This is how the PCB should look by now.


Cut another 3 pin male header and place it on the SWITCH label.


The Buzzer has a positive lead, place it on the + sign on the PCB.


Time for the two momentary buttons. Place this components on the B1 and B2 labels.


The IR sensor goes on the U1 label.

The curved shape on the PCB must follow the curved shape on the component.

Leave some height on this component, because it is a IR receiver, we want it to be higher that the other components for better IR reception.


The potenciometer is easy to figger out where it should be placed.


The LDR’s should be placed on the R6 and R8 labels.

They don’t have polarity, and you should leave some height because this will increase sensitivity when comparing the detected light.

Use also a small piece of heatshrink in one of the leads.

We didn’t did this by the time of this tutorial, but we found it is a good practice to prevent short-circuits.


Now its time to add the Arduino Stackable Headers


This is how the PCB should look.

Now let’s see how everything works.


Notice how the shape near every component look.

This side of the male header is physically connected to the Arduino Pin.

This side of the male header is physically connected to the component.

D13 This label tells us where the component is connected.


Lets start with one LED. In this case we can connect this LED to D4, which is an abbreviation to Digital Pin 4 on the Arduino.

If we want to connect the LED to any other pin we should use a jumper wire, and just choose the desired pin.

For this just use one of the supplied pitch jumpers.

For this just use one of the supplied jumper wires.


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