8 Jul
2013
8 Jul
'13
1:35 p.m.
count me in for some soldering and GPIO debauchery as needed
Jul 7, 2013 02:20:17 PM, steveberl(a)gmail.com wrote:
I just ordered one also. Sounds like a fun project. Maybe we need to have a "put it
together" party when they arrive?
I've been following this project for a while, their goal is to produce a small
ARM board with everything you need to program it built in for only $5 -- the idea being
that at that price, you can stick them everywhere and not have to worry about the cost.
They are now close to being finished, and are trying to raise enough money to get some
prototypes out into the hands of hackers looking to play with them. You can see details on
the project here: http://mchck.org/
>Features
>open: entirely open source hardware and software
powerful: ARM Cortex-M4 with DSP extensions, 50MHz, 32KB code flash, 8KB RAM, 32KB data
flash
>easy to use: programmable via USB; USB 2.0 full speed device and host in hardware
>massive connectivity: 10 PWM outputs, 12 analog inputs, 29 GPIOs, 6 serial interfaces,
14 touch sense inputs
low power: can run directly from a coin cell battery for months
>extensible: add LiPo battery charger, 2.4GHz radio, extra flash memory, all without
additional boards
>small: only 50mm*19mm / 1.97in*0.75in
cheap: $5 to build at home
>They need to sell 50 in order to get bulk
pricing on stuff, for $60 (which includes shipping) you get:
5 boards + all the parts needed for them
>2 RF communications boards (NRF24L01+)
>2 LiPo battery charger ICs
>2 180mAh LiPo batteries
>2 1MB SPI flash ICs
>3 different power regulators (so you can run from a variety of power sources)
2 microUSB jacks (the boards themselves will plug into a USB port directly, the optional
jack allows you to instead use a USB cable)
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On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 2:07 PM, David Rorex drorex(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've already ordered a kit, I'm thus spamming
you all in the hopes that others will as well and I can get my boards (I have an unhealthy
addiction to small inexpensive microcontroller boards)
link to order here --> https://github.com/mchck/mchck/wiki/Prototypes
Note that this is not a finished product yet --
you'll either need a bit of experience with ARM and microcontroller dev, or be willing
to wait to use the boards until they finish all the software and iron out any issues that
may arise.
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