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| Posted: 11:54am 29 May 2018 |
I suspect it's a "brain-transplant". The arduino been removed from the board and a MX170 soldered to the I/O pins so it fits the footprint and maybe takes advantage of the USB interface for the console. Nice idea.
I have toyed in the past with the idea of producing a MM board on the same footprint (shield) outline, but never needed to. Have used arduino shield boards but only singly and was ok with 0.1" rows of connectors.
One of my first forays into MM-beyond-the-breadboard was to do a brain-transplant of a PIC16F877 with a MX170 44-pin version mounted on a daughter board with the pins taken to two rows of 20x0.1" headers on 0.6" centers (i.e. the footprint of a 40pin DIP)... bit of programming and job done - still running today in my frequency counter.