All the boards are Soldered!

[Originally Posted December 30, 2011]

That's right! Everything is put together now.  I've also added in the unfortunately left-out pull up resistors on the Character LCD as well as the Development board.  Additionally, I straight up removed the option to power the Development board with a regulator (after I broke it with -12V ...oops).  IT doesn't make sense to have when most projects involve USB communication anyways.

For an Interesting Comparison I pulled out an Arduino and placed it alongside my board.  Both pretty similar. Basically, the same my component selection changes (and mine is a whole lot simpler).

The Development Board and all my Shields. 

Motor Control Shield Close-Up

That's great! Now with every project that I'm working on is either in the firmware phase or the Board phase. Either way it means more time on my computer...