If you find that anything's missing, drop our customer service folks an email and they'll

help you out.

Next, you'll need to pull together the various tools that you need for assembly. All you

need to provide is a wire stripper, a soldering iron, and some solder. You may find it

handy to have a third hand tool or vise to hold the board steady while you solder.

Our beginner's tool kit has everything you need in one place.

Assembly:

Assembly of the RFM22 shield is quite easy. The hardest part is getting the headers

perpendicular to the board such that the shield plugs easily into Arduino boards, and

other shields can be plugged in on top of it.

Start by placing the four header strips in the appropriate locations, by number of pins.

The male pins should be sticking out on the side of the board with no components,

and the female sockets should be visible when looking down at the component side.

NB: at this point, if you have a known-good Arduino shield, you can plug it into the

female side of the headers to hold them at a favorable angle and skip straight to

soldering all the connections down. Be careful if you do that, though, because a small

alignment error in the "good" shield will become a much larger error on the one you're

soldering to now!

Flip the board over so the male pin side is up. This is the tricky part- the headers have

a tendency to rock left to right, so that the end up soldered at a non-right angle with

the board, which makes connecting other boards difficult or impossible. Tack down

one and only one pin on each header.

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