Before opening the Arduino software, wire up the Arduino according to the circuits page using the 8MHz minimalist breadboard circuit but with a 10k pull-up resistor on the reset pin (physical pin 1).

Here’s a no-PCB Arduino that doesn’t obscure the DIP ... allowing it to be used in a breadboard or DIP socket. You can see a walk through of the components in the clip after the break.

[Martyn] Posted a three part series, VeroBoardUino, over at his blog about moving your Arduino project to a soldered breadboard. Next post he will be covering more on the software end of things ...