Paperduino is like the cardboard fort version of every hacker's favorite I/O board

After the boundless Arduino-based inventions we've witnessed over the years, it was really about time Arduino did a little something for itself. Guilherme printed up his own paper Arduino designs, which do away with the regular printed circuit board and substitute a colorful combination of paper, cardboard and nerdy needlepoint. It's almost precious enough to get us to pick up a soldering iron once more, despite the horrible disfigurement caused by our last run-in with melting metal.

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[(Unverified) Posted May 11th 2009 1:07PM]

Hmm, soldering iron + molten metal + paper = not good

[(Unverified) Posted May 12th 2009 7:25PM]

Listen, you obviously never heard of FR-2 aka synthetic resin bonded paper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FR-2) a common "cost effective" replacement, Chinese all time favorite material and predecessor to FR-4 (woven glass and epoxy) used for your run of the mill PCB...

[bdav Posted May 11th 2009 1:08PM]

Seems like quite a strange thing to do...

I would so set the paper on fire with my s**te soldering skilzzzz...

[(Unverified) Posted May 11th 2009 1:19PM]

whats the point of this again?

[NeoJew Posted May 11th 2009 2:11PM]

SCIENCE!

[BigD145 Posted May 11th 2009 5:09PM]

Needlepoint? What happened to wire wrap?

[ty1911 Posted May 12th 2009 2:31AM]

I am sure it is to get more people into Arduino.
The videos make it easy, but this takes the guesswork out of wiring it up.
Oh I am sure that the target audience are the ones who need reading glasses.

[superhobo Posted May 12th 2009 9:35AM]

PCB = Paper Circuit Board.