Wortelsoft has a review of the Flower 2.2 protoboard shield for Arduino Mega. It has a unique solder pad that can be used with surface mount parts, and a via in each cluster of contacts can be used with through hole parts.
The Flower protoboard is a clever new design which makes it easy so combine SMT with throughole to save some board space on an Arduino proto shield. I missed the silk screen idicating the name / function of the pin. The price of the shield is on par with other protoshields on sale elsewhere. I hope elecfreaks will also make some single and double sided protoboard for none Arduino usage using the “flower” pads.
Via the contact form.
Looks nice :) I usually solder dead bug style some solid core wire to the “leads” or pads and then connect the wires as you normally would, but this looks a lot cleaner!
I’d love to try one, but I really don’t need those pins. Hope they’ll release a non-Arduino version :)
I just received a prototype flower board for evaluation. So far the workmanship quality is great. It shipped with both single row and double row header pins.
Since I don’t work with Arduinos, I’ll have to see what I can cook up.