Overview

Protolino Click Shield is the perfect way to expand your development board's functionalities compatible with Arduino's Uno Rev3 pinout. The Protolino Click Shield provides one mikroBUS™ socket to add any functionality from our ever-growing range of Click boards™. We are fully stocked with everything, from sensors and WiFi transceivers to motor control and audio amplifiers.

Arduino Uno is the most straightforward and most famous development kit offered by Arduino. It is an easy way to embark on an adventure with microcontrollers' development from the prominent ATMEL AVR family. It is based on the ATmega328P, an 8-bit microcontroller with 32KB of Flash memory and 2KB of RAM. It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with an AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started.

This development platform provides users with an effortless and common way to combine the Arduino Uno Rev3 footprint compatible development board with their favorite Click boards™ in their upcoming projects.

Main features

Protolino Click Shield is an adapter board for the Arduino family, precisely for the Arduino Uno Rev3 board, with only one onboard mikroBUS™ socket. This way, Mikroe allows its users to add any functionality from our ever-growing range of Click boards™, such as WiFi, GSM, GPS, Bluetooth, ZigBee, environmental sensors, LEDs, speech recognition, motor control, movement sensors, and many more.

The Arduino Uno Rev3 can be programmed with the Arduino Software (IDE), an Integrated Development Environment common to all Arduino boards, and runs online and offline. The Arduino software includes a serial monitor that allows sending simple textual data to and from the Arduino board. Also, the Uno Rev3 board supports I2C and SPI communication and includes a Wire library to simplify using the I2C bus. For more information on how to get started with the Arduino Software, visit the Getting Started page.

This Click Shield has several switches, labeled from SW1 to SW5, associated with the GPIO pins on the mikroBUS ™ socket (CS, RST, AN, PWM, INT), with the addition of a red LED connected to each of the mikroBUS™ socket lines. With the help of these switches, the user is allowed to hardware control specific GPIO pins, which thus has the ability to control the motor driver Click boards™ from our offer, as shown in the pictures below. This Click Shield's additional advantage is that with the USB Type C connector located on the board's bottom side, it can operate as a Standalone without an Arduino board.

Once you connect the Arduino Uno Rev3 board with our Protolino Click Shield, it will allow you to access a thousand Click boards™ working with 3.3V or 5V logic voltage level. For checking which Click boards™ is compatible with the Arduino Uno Rev3 board, please open our Click Shop filter. Our Click boards™ is equipped with a library containing functions and example source codes for Mikroe compilers available on LibStock, which can be used, as a reference, for further development.