i was wondering when someone was going to make one small enough to slip in to small places

Posted at 11:29 pm on Jul 6th, 2008 by alex mccown

What it comes down to is: if you just want to experiment, get the arudino, but if you want to develop, and then embed a uc into a project, develop on the arduino, and transplant or program the uc on the RBBB

Posted at 12:40 am on Jul 7th, 2008 by aonomus

very nice and compact.

Posted at 12:49 am on Jul 7th, 2008 by diy audio projects

Bah! Still not bare-bones enough.

Here’s my patented/copyrighted bare-bones Arduino kit, which I’ve actually gotten Digikey to carry for me, although we had to work out a licensing deal where they took my trademark off the kit.

http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail?name=ATMEGA168-20PU-ND

Posted at 5:14 pm on Jul 7th, 2008 by elliot

Any particular reason to go with an Arduino over this on a breadboard? The RBBB is smaller and cheaper and seems to have all the same functions.

For what it’s worth, these guys also sell an assembled one for only $6 more.

Posted at 11:08 pm on Jul 7th, 2008 by Xandar

The biggest difference between this and the official Arduino is the USB circuitry is not on the board. Programming is handled with a USB-to-TTL serial cable. This means if you have a project requiring a USB connection (like my Northern Lights Indicator http://www.instructables.com/id/Spectrographic-Auroral-Indicator/) you will need to add this $20 part to the total project cost. Otherwise, you will only need a single cable to program multiple boards.

Posted at 8:10 am on Jul 8th, 2008 by youevolve

wasn’t there a new release for this?

Posted at 2:00 pm on Mar 1st, 2009 by Malavika