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Fritzing Part for the Boldport Cuttle

The Cuttle is perhaps the most beautiful ATmega328-based board around.

As an Arduino-compatible board, I thought it made sense there should be a Frtizing part for it! Since the design files are open source, it didn’t take much effort to get a decent looking part working. I used pcbmode to generate an initial SVG from the cuttle design files.

This is an example of what it looks like in a sketch:

cuttle_blinky_example_bb

Fritzing Sources

The part is packaged in TheCuttle.fzpz and the source SVG files are here if anyone would like to try and improve it.

Example

See cuttle_blinky_example for an example sketch - simple D13 blinky using the Cuttle

Credits and References

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This page is a web-friendly rendering of my project notes shared in the LEAP GitHub repository.

LEAP is just my personal collection of projects. Two main themes have emerged in recent years, sometimes combined:

  • electronics - usually involving an Arduino or other microprocessor in one way or another. Some are full-blown projects, while many are trivial breadboard experiments, intended to learn and explore something interesting
  • scale modelling - I caught the bug after deciding to build a Harrier during covid to demonstrate an electronic jet engine simulation. Let the fun begin..
To be honest, I haven't quite figured out if these two interests belong in the same GitHub repo or not. But for now - they are all here!

Projects are often inspired by things found wild on the net, or ideas from the many great electronics and scale modelling podcasts and YouTube channels. Feel free to borrow liberally, and if you spot any issues do let me know (or send a PR!). See the individual projects for credits where due.