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ALio Proto Board

Open source prototyping board that fits almost any SMD and through-hole components at the same time

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Funding ended on Jan 15, 2018 at 03:59 PM PST.

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ALio Proto Board is a prototyping board designed for electronic hobbyists who want to make prototypes containing SMD and through-hole components without using an extra breakout board. ALio is compatible with the traditional proto board while including all the features and benefits of traditional proto board.

Point-to-point wiring is easy with ALio, just a blob of solder does the trick. In addition, the double layer bus lets you route as circuits as if they were on a double-layer PCB, so you can forget about using wire jumpers. This is great for quickly prototyping stackable circuits.

ALio lets you freely attach SMD component in any location or direction, so you can forget about using an extra SMD breakout board; ALio fits almost all SMD components. ALio is great for beginners, since it is easy to solder and allows you to move your bread-board project to a permanent proto board project.

The Embedded and Arduino compatible versions provide SPI breakout, since SPI is the most common protocol and because wiring SPI directly to a microcontroller can be challenging.

Because every project needs power, ALio provides a 2-in-1 Micro-USB/Mini-USB pad, so powering and connecting your project is easy.

Specifications

Product Features

ALio Board Comparison

ALio BasicALio EmbeddedALio Arduino
SD/microSD breakout yesyesyes
mini/micro USB pads noyesyes
SPI breakout 1x1x2x
Arduino shield mounting holes nonoyes

ALio Basic Board

ALio basic board, top view.
ALio basic board, top view.

ALio Basic is designed for wide area prototyping. It is like a standard protoboard, but with the freedom to combine SMD and PTH components without any additional breakout board. And with an extra 1.1 mm pitch pad, you can attach a micro-SD/mini-SD or any SMD socket.


ALio Embedded Board

ALio Embedded is designed for prototyping that involves microcontrollers. With an extra SPI pad, micro-USB/mini-USB pad, and extra 1.1 mm pitch pad, prototyping microcontrollers on a protoboard simpler than ever before. If you want to prototype with another MCU or need a large prototyping area, the embedded board is for you.

ALio embedded board, bottom view.
ALio embedded board, bottom view.

ALio Arduino Compatible Board

The ALio Arduino version is also designed for prototyping that involves with microcontroller. It has an extra SPI pad, micro-USB/mini-USB pad, an extra 1.1 mm pitch pad, and is also Arduino compatible. It includes an Arduino pinout for stacking it to another Arduino board. In short, with this version of ALio, you can build your own Arduino board or Arduino-custom-shield.

ALio Arduino-compatible board, top view.
ALio Arduino-compatible board, top view.

Alio Microcontroller Breakout Board

The ALio MCU Breakout board is designed to fit TQFP44, TQFP32, MLF32, and SOIC IC packages on one side. On the other side, it has a unique pad to fit SMD components for your microcontroller’s minimum requirements, such as capacitors, inductors, crystals, resistors, or LEDs. It also has a mini-USB/micro-USB pad, so you can use it as a stand-alone microcontroller board.

ALio MCU breakout board, top and bottom.
ALio MCU breakout board, top and bottom.

How to Use ALio

ALio comes with a unique and different orientation NON-through-hole BUS pad designed to be used for SMD components or routing circuits as double layer.

Here is an example for routing BUS as double layer to connect point A to A’ and point B to B’. Since the busses are NON-through-hole you can overlap the trace and minimizing jumper wire usage.

Comparisons

BoardALio(Sparkfun) Wombat(Adafruit) Perma-Proto(Elecfreaks) FlowerPerf+RoutaBoard
Price$7*$9.95$4.50$4.90$7*$4.58
Component PackageSMD & PTH PTHPTHSMD & PTH PTHPTH
Extra Breakout1.1mm pitch, SPI, micro-USB, mini-USB no no SOIC no no
Wire-freeyes no yes yes yes yes yes
Cut-freeyes yes no yes no yes
Double layer busyes no no no yes no

*US shipping included

Manufacturing Plan

The final designs are completed. We will be using PCBway as our PCB manufacturer.

Risks and Challenges

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ALio MCU breakout board, top and bottom.

Five ALio MCU Breakout Boards

Build your own stand-alone microcontroller board.

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ALio embedded board, bottom view.

Two ALio Embedded Boards

Extra 2-in-1 Mini-USB and Micro-USB pad and SPI Breakout.

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ALio basic board, top view.

Two ALio Basic Boards

Wide area for prototyping.

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ALio Arduino-compatible board, top view.

Two ALio Arduino Compatible Board

You can build your own Arduino-board or Arduino-shield with this board.

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(Early Bird) ALio Bundle

One of each ALio variant + Microcontroller breakout board.

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About the Team

AERD

AERD is an open source electronic development startup. Mostly we design microcontroller project for maker-user or end-user product. We aim to create open source and affordable products, so everyone can learn and use our product. Our motto is "from maker, to maker".

Arief Ibrahim Adha
Computer Engineer, Electronics Hobbyist
 arief_adha

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