Oct 24, 2013

Minimal Arduino-compatible circuit with ATMega328

(Hack a Day) ... It’s a very, very minimal Arduino-compatible circuit meant to control all the pins on an ATMega328. The components only cost about £1.40 ($2.25 USD) when bought in volume, making it perfect for teaching a class or workshop on the Arduino and giving each student a circuit to take home.

The basic circuit is just an ATMega328 – the same microcontroller used in the Arduino Uno – with a few caps, resistors, and a 16 MHz crystal. It’s a very bare-bones system, but once built and programmed provides all the functionality of a $25 Arduino.

Like all microcontroller platforms, there’s the chicken-and-egg problem of actually programming the device. The Shrimp team is using a CP2102 USB to UART bridge to program each shrimp. Not an inexpensive part, but it is of course possible to only have one serial bridge for each workshop.

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8 comments:

  1. http://youtu.be/Lu_GF33EMLA

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  2. note: get MCs with Arduino bootloader preloaded,
    like this https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10524
    or the ones at shrimping.it

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  3. or else u have to ... http://www.instructables.com/id/Burning-the-Bootloader-on-ATMega328-using-Arduino-/

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  5. also there is this stuff:
    USBaspLoader is a USB boot loader for AVR microcontrollers. Instead of requiring a separate downloader tool on the host, it emulates the popular USBasp programmer so that it can be controlled by AVRDUDE.
    http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/usbasploader.html

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  6. ATMega328 microcontroller bootloader UNO
    http://export.rsdelivers.com/product/gheo-sa/a000048/atmega328-microcontroller-bootloader-uno/7589339.aspx

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  7. From Arduino to a Microcontroller on a Breadboard
    http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoToBreadboard

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  8. UltraSonic Arduino How To - Parking your car with an Arduino

    http://youtu.be/U4D_c3fflLU

    >... how to make a circuit that helps you back your car up into the garage, and put the Arduino into a super low power sleep when the circuit is not needed.

    THE CODE:
    http://www.kevindarrah.com/download/a...

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