Comments on: Really Bare Bones Board Arduino clone

By: Malavika

Malavika — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:00:29 +0000

wasn’t there a new release for this?

By: youevolve

youevolve — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:10:56 +0000

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.

By: Xandar

Xandar — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:08:52 +0000

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.

By: elliot

elliot — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:14:38 +0000

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

By: diy audio projects

diy audio projects — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:49:41 +0000

very nice and compact.

By: aonomus

aonomus — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:40:55 +0000

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

By: alex mccown

alex mccown — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:29:05 +0000

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