Add-On Board for Raspberry Pi.

It looks like the board is designed to support a 7.5v to 18v power supply with some additional parts. Is this possible and is there a BOM for the required parts somewhere?

I'm still waiting on response in regards to How to setup of the Arduino IDE environment. The Video shows that when compiling sketches the available boards are Gertduino ATmega328(GPIO), and 7 others with (GPIO)etc. and the Programmer used is the Raspberry Pi (GPIO) . My question is how are these boards and programmer enabled? they are not listed on any of my systems--Pi's or PC's in either the Arduino IDE 1.01 or 1.05 or 1.5 environments. Where is the document or download that shows how those are enabled? I don't want to purchase another Raspberry Pi / Arduino add-on that i "thought i needed" but can't figure out how to upload/program it to work. I would also like to see and read how you can program it unconnected to the Pi.

Well, I be a fool! After further reading ALL these posts and their user comments/replies:

Posted by Charles Gantt in GertDuino on Jan 14, 2014 3:35:00 PM"

and "https://projects.drogon.net/raspberry-pi/gertboard/arduino-ide-installation-isp/"

I discovered that : (an excerpt) will add the missing boards and programmers...

The next thing we need to do is tell the Arduino IDE about the processor on the Gertboard.

This is a bit more complicated, so it’s probably easier to simply fetch my files and use them directly, however if you have added your own board into an Arduino IDE before, then fetch my file and merge the changes in.

cd /tmp
wget project-downloads.drogon.net/.../boards.txt
wget project-downloads.drogon.net/.../programmers.txt
cd /usr/share/arduino/hardware/arduino
sudo mv boards.txt board.txt.bak
sudo mv /tmp/boards.txt .
sudo mv programmers.txt programmers.txt.bak
sudo mv /tmp/programmers.txt .

The most up to date manual can be found here :-

http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/1778121.pdf?COM=GertDuino

Simple solution Tom, paint the edges with nail varnish. It seals the edges and rounds off the sharp bits and corners and you even get to choose the colour!

Thanks for the helpful link. I really am disappointed so far. The pdf manual is corrupt in some way. Even the online viewer chokes on page 5. None on my offline PDF tools will even try. I hope that is fixed soon. Till then I'll try the article you linked.

Since I have a Raspberry Pi going spare and I have worked my way through the projects in the "Arduino Starter Kit" (so needless to say I'm very new to micro electronics), I thought I would get one of these to combine the two. So far it's been a struggle to get the GertDuino to work, so I suggest potential buyers at least read the blog of Ed Kalin about his All-Sky Camera Blog (see http://www.element14.com/community/people/doorknob/blog/2014/04/07/getting-started-with-gertduino--the-backstory) if only to show the problems to be overcome to get this board to work (be sure to follow the links in the article). As I too hit the same problems and sorry to say I can't read GertDuino Schematics. I did however get the forth project from the Arduino Starter Kit (Colour Mixing Lamp) to work with this board, but I couldn't upload the sketch to this GertDuino board when it was wired up my breadboard (avrdude initialization failed error messages).

I very much like the idea of combining an Arduino with a the Raspberry Pi via the GPIO pins, but I feel the Supplied documentation and software required to get this baby to work leaves a lot to be desired.

The manual PDF file seems to be corrupt.

I am excited to have received my Gertduino board via Amazon.com, but was concerned about the sharp edges where the circuit board material was cut to the proper side.  And I actually got a very tiny yet certainly painful and difficult to remove splinter in my index finger while feeling along the sides of the board.  I could certainly use some fine-grained sandpaper to alleviate the problem, or else a pumice stone perhaps.  But I am concerned about static discharge harming the Atmel ICs.  Actually, I encountered the same problem with machine-cut circuit board in the microSD-to-SD converter (designed to fit the profile of the Raspberry Pi board) which I purchased from Adafruit, though I don't think static discharge would harm that component.

I believe there are semi-liquid grouts which might be used to clean off such sharp boards without static discharge, but have no experience with such things and no idea where to obtain?

I guess I am just wondering why these specialty boards cannot have been hand-sanded after they were cut and before static discharge-prone components were added to them?  The Raspberry Pi board seems to have very nicely-finished edges.

I really hate that I will likely always have to be careful not to injure my fingers every time I have to mount/dismount the Gertduino onto the Raspberry Pi.  I could leave it in place, I suppose, but then I would need to find an appropriate enclosure for both.  And then also for any additional Arduino shields as well.  I did see an interesting fold-out kind of project case which can both lay flat for while you are working on it and then fold into a cube for when you are not working on it -- but I can no longer find the article I was reading when I spotted that case.

It's a great product, thanks for the idea! But what about the ICSP header?