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We introduce the MOD Arduino Shield. A shield that enables the Arduino to interface with MOD through our Control Chain Interface.

The MOD Arduino Shield was designed to help developers and hackers who wants to create their own effects controllers for MOD.

The main idea is that, with little effort, anyone can design and assemble the eletronics of any sensor, integrate with Arduino and then with MOD.

Copy and paste some lines of code, solder some components on the breadboard, and easily have your own controller of MOD effects.

The MOD Arduino Shield is compatible with Arduino UNO, Arduino MEGA and Arduino DUE.

This project is '''open hardware'''! All the project files, not only the schematics and gerber, are open and available in our Github. We are using KiCad ([http://www.kicad-pcb.org/ KiCad Main Site]), also an open source software, for developing our boards and cases schematics. All the components are listed in the bill of materias with links for the general suppliers.

And the software is also open. We developed an Arduino Control Chain library that will do all the hard work, so developers can easily implement their own cases.

We will present here some successfull cases and help you with your development. The cases will come with eletronic schematics, tested code examples, bill of materials, images and manuals.

But the MOD Arduino Shield is not restricted by these cases.

We have ideas of hacking a scale and use the weight sensor to control the distortion, a heart beat monitor that controls the dellay of the sound, and even brain waves monitor for controlling the MOD. It goes way further.

The cases here are supposed to be cheap and easy, so if it get's difficult, let us know! (contact@portalmod.com)

== Hardware Project Files ==
[https://github.com/portalmod/mod-arduino-shield/tree/master/shield MOD Arduino Shield Hardware Files]

== Images ==

[[File:MOD-Arduino-Shield-Components2.jpg|800px|thumb|left|Components for the MOD Arduino Shield Assembly]]

[[File:MOD-Arduino-Shield-PCB.jpg|800px|thumb|left|MOD Arduino Shield Prototype 1 PCB]]

[[File:MOD-Arduino-Shield-Assembled.jpg|800px|thumb|left|MOD Arduino Shield Prototype 1 Assembled]]