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A $5 Arduino?!!

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At first I was presently surprised but after a while I started to wonder. Knowing that the cheapest AVR device costs about $3-$5 I started to investigate how they could build a complete board with MPU for $5 including shipping. It turns out the Chinese have CLONED the Atmel AVR processor with an instruction set compatible creation of their own. It runs most AVR code unaltered save for the fact that some of the peripherals are slightly less capable and the device used in the board only has 1K RAM and 8K flash.

Still it's a very nice entry level board for simple systems. I estimate that you can fit a program of about 1000 lines of C code into the 8K flash, which is sufficient for a lot of projects.

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Anonymous Remailer (austria)
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Nice toy, may be. Entry level - not so sure, entry into what - cut and paste?

Whether it costs $5 or $50 or is given away for free makes no significant difference I suppose. If someones invested time into it will be at a similar cost then someone might as well just watch some TV show instead.

But I have never used an evaluation board in my life (I never saw any reason why I should do the same project twice) so may be I am missing the whole point of that sort of boards.

Dimiter

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dp

On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 07:49:08 -0800 (PST), dp Gave us:

Tying a control computer to a piece of peripheral hardware?

Drunk much?

You are all diverse and stuff... not.

They are for controlling lab experiments, and a host of other things apparently far above your aptitude level. Obviously.

At least the cubox can be used as a little PC.

NOTE: NOT $5 FIVE WATTS!

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

Whatever you say, dear, whatever you say. I have yet to encounter anyone using that sort of thing get past the wannabe stage.

Dimiter

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dp

On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 10:53:16 -0800 (PST), dp Gave us:

"Dear"? You are quite the scientist. Not.

Yeah, but you ain't real bright. You ain't 'da meter', Dimiter.

Bwuahahahahaha! Plenty of folks using them.

What do you think those swarming, bluetooth connected quad rotors that dude is toying with all have on them?

Interconnected. One could monitor one's property perimeter with them... all wirelessly.

Plenty of uses.

A party of balloon fiesta goers could network groups of balloons together. They could even launch balloons from their balloons!

Plenty of uses. Could probably get one to monitor terahertz imagery and tune it to idiots like you from the masses... for proof testing. You do not seem to be 'all there'.

Plenty of uses...

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

This is just plain wrong - you can buy an ATmega328 from Farnell for £1.2 @ 100 off so they'll be a lot cheaper if you buy a decent number direct - less than $1 not $3-5.

It is true that the board uses an inferior "clone" chip, more like an ATmega88 which of course is much cheaper from Atmel.

So if you want to work at low margins and can ship enough of them it would be quite feasible to make this board with a real Atmel processor.

Michael Kellett

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MK

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