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Custom through-hole Solder-Your-Own-Arduino board

Something my cofounder and I put together for the LVL1 Hackerspace; still working on getting rid of that last surface mount component (the FTDI chip) with a different USB bridge.




You could just use an external ~$2 USB to UART but that takes all of the fun out of it
We're working on getting a smaller through-hole Atmel chip to be our USB bridge; we've got some prototype boards built to test that out.
For other projects we have left a header for an FTDI cable.
Fair enough. I've only gotten into SMD recently but I actually find soldering SO-16 easier than DIP.
I love surface mount soldering; I find it relaxing.