---
title: "Standalone Arduino Turn-On and Debug"
description: "The Pyramiduino gets populated, reflow soldered, and turned-on. Learn how to debug a standalone Arduino and program a boot loader in this AddOhms project.."
canonical: "https://www.baldengineer.com/standalone-arduino-turn-on-and-debug.html"
author: "James Lewis"
date: "2018-07-09T13:00:54Z"
lastmod: "2022-03-31T01:13:28Z"
image: "https://www.baldengineer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/27-YouTube-Thumbnail-Template-v3-holding-01-01.png"
categories: ["addohms","arduino","blog","measurements","microcontrollers","soldering","tutorials","videos"]
tags: []
---

# Standalone Arduino Turn-On and Debug


This AddOhms episode is part 3 of the "design your own Arduino" series. In this one I populate a bare PCB, reflow solder it, debug a few issues, and load the Uno bootloader. Originally, I designed 2 versions of the board. One version contained an error that I planned to fix in the episode. Well, turns out, the "correct" board had two issues which were more interesting.

Check out the [#27 show notes](http://addohms.com/diy-arduino-turn-on) for links to a bunch of stuff in the episode, including the design files.

[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYZY1anoUnA)