2 Pin Header?

[shetc]

Hi All,

Just received the Adafruit ARDX - v1.3 Experimentation Kit for Arduino (Uno R3) - v1.3 for Xmas.
I was about to try the CIRC-01 tutorial, and I noticed that it calls for pinning down the layout
sheet with 4 x 2 Pin Headers. There aren't any in the kit though there is something similar-looking
with 17 pins on it. Am I supposed to cut that up into 2 Pin Headers?

Thanks,
Steve

[adafruit]

yes, break off pieces

[shetc]

Thx!

[sphillips]

I had the same question today, which is over a year later...I'm glad I found the answer here in the forum, but could the fact that you have to make your own 2 pin headers by snapping the long one into pieces please be made clearer in the instructions included with the kit--for those of us who truly are novices with this stuff? I didn't even know what a "header" was until 5 minutes ago! (And this is a great example of why teachers need to try these out themselves before turning their students loose on this kit!)

[adafruit_support_bill]

Thanks for the suggestion. We are always working to improve the tutorials.

[Messydesk]

I am also going through the Circ 01 Tutorial after purchasing the kit, This is my first time doing anything with Arduino or electornics, I was breifly super frustrated in terms of thinking that I didn't get all of the parts, but then found this message while looking into contacting customer service... As a beginner (especially one afraid of breaking things) it's not obvious that you have to break apart the headers at all.

[adafruit_support_bill]

Thanks for the feedback. The ARDX tutorials are maintained by oomlaut (the makers of the ARDX kit). You can contact them directly as well: http://www.oomlout.co.uk/contact_us.html