Now we make a little shield for the Arduino.



Take the pin headers and snap off two lots of four pins. Put them into the Arduino, you'll want them in the 0,1,2,3 on one side and the Vin GND GND and 5V headers on the other side. Put the strip board on top and mark up how much of the board you need. They're not opposite each other so you won't need to do anything with the copper on the stripboard.

Score along the lines of what you need on the stripboard and snap it along the score lines.



Now we do a little alteration of the pin headers, pushing them down on a hard surface until the black plastic bit is flush with the hard surface. That way we can put the plastic bit on the side of the stripboard with no copper and have a nice bit to solder onto the copper.



Strip the other ends of the rainbow wire and solder the Clock and Data Pins to the strips that line up with 3 and 2 Respectively. Don't worry if you do them the other way by mistake, you can change it in the code!



Solder the blue in line with one of the GND Pins and the orange in line with the 5V.

