Awesome! Wow, good job. And as for the looks of the board…well, I normally don’t care a bit about the looks; I’m a function over form guy. However, I’ve got to admit: I like the pcb color, and love the 45 degree chip offset.

Now if some genius would write good webserver / email code for the Arduino, I will be all set…

ps Caleb, I hope ‘coule’ was a miss-spelling and not a hipster attempt. :)

Posted at 8:37 am on Jan 12th, 2009 by fractalrock

@fractalrock: Just a guess, but I’d say that the 45-degree offset *is* a practical move. Think about how you’d break out that many pins to two card edges – it makes for a much more streamlined PCB.

Posted at 9:04 am on Jan 12th, 2009 by pragma

Lame.

Whats the point of putting them on the underside.

Nice try but you could have used the leds a bit better

Posted at 9:57 am on Jan 12th, 2009 by Ryan

@pragma: good point…

Posted at 10:03 am on Jan 12th, 2009 by fractalrock

@ryan: I suspect the idea was to mount the PCB in an enclosure with the components facing in and the LED’s facing out, which is pretty much the standard way of doing that.

Posted at 10:24 am on Jan 12th, 2009 by localroger

Very nice. But i have to say the ISP setup is completely horrible.

Posted at 10:56 am on Jan 12th, 2009 by Audin

@audin

Yeah WTF why couldn’t he have a standard 6 or 10 pin isp header? how the hell are you suposed to use those?

Posted at 11:04 am on Jan 12th, 2009 by steve

nice work!

just wanted to say:

Ryan’s A dick.

Posted at 11:59 am on Jan 12th, 2009 by me

awsome! u should sell that!

Posted at 12:14 pm on Jan 12th, 2009 by jgrimm

Nice layout. I love the symmetry and the 45° angle.

Although I really hate these USB-B plugs/receptacles. Compared to the rest of the board it is so bulky. Why not Mini-USB-B? I have more of these cables nowadays anyways…

I can understand Arduino-compatibility, but the same design choice is weird there as well…

Bye,
Simon

Posted at 1:59 pm on Jan 12th, 2009 by Simon

dam it, i just baught a regular arduino. ehh this can be the next one.

as for the underglow leds thats realy cool !
maybe if you could drill a hole in the pcb and mount them in the hole some how you could see the glow from all sides ?

Posted at 3:01 pm on Jan 12th, 2009 by luke

@ryan the underside LEDs are just to produce a “cool” ambient glow, they are not individually controlled. That is why he controls them with the bling function.

I also agree that the ISP holes are not the greatest. I usually go with a 6-pin SMD standard 0.1″ layout (to save a little bit of space). Through-hole header pins can still easily be soldered on if necessary.

Posted at 3:41 pm on Jan 12th, 2009 by jproach

Oh, that is funny. When I loaded this guys site and checked his store earlier today, his board was $29, same price as the Duemilanove. I added it to my cart figuring I’d come back and buy it tonight.. well, he just bumped his price by $6.

Not cool dude.. not cool… That’s almost half one of your shield extenders.. which I will not be buying now because of it.

Posted at 8:53 pm on Jan 12th, 2009 by Red

Just grabbed one. we shall see how it looks. I was looking for something like this with more pins plus it just looks awesome from here. cant wait to play

Posted at 6:35 am on Jan 13th, 2009 by atomriot

Ya he did bump his price up.. that sux. will cost me nearly 50$ to get it here in canada.

I already purchased several arduinos, arduino clones and the sanguino … i spent over 200$ on arduinos so i’ll keep cool for now until i find use for all 10. Perhaps by then he’ll bump the price cheaper.

we’ll see.

Posted at 7:28 am on Jan 13th, 2009 by silverbyte

ok, i see what he did. he ran out of stock and asked the arduino guys if they wanted more. he has a few left now that i bought 1 of for 35, but if you can wait until he builds more its 29.99. he’s building them by hand!

Posted at 8:13 am on Jan 13th, 2009 by avr111

Honestly I like the isp setup. always when I work with wiring I like twisting as apposed to solder and plug in. It also it give it kinda an old school look to contrast with the nice PCB look the rest of the board has (save the huge usb connector, but I got tons of those that need something to do).

I’m sold, but the guy might wanna update his price so it actually matches what its on sale for.

Posted at 9:59 am on Jan 13th, 2009 by blizzarddemon

I just ordered 6 of them for $35. When I went back to have another look, I noticed they are now $39. So, I don’t think the price is going to be bumped down anymore… and there is no reason why it should be. Open source hardware is nice, but that doesn’t mean the guys at Liquidware should be working for free. I’m glad I got there right on time though :-), but really considering the time they are putting in to solder it together, this is worth rather something like $50 or even $100

Jo

Posted at 2:02 am on Mar 23rd, 2009 by Jo

My two Illuminatos arrived last week. All I can say is that they are mega-cool! Far more ram, and a much faster download speed. Plus they are pin-for-pin compatible with my existing Arduino shields, and the code for the Illuminato ported directly into my current Arduino installation. It’s a much better looking board, and the 42 (!) digital I/O lines will make it much easier to interface to future projects. Well done guys, well done.

Posted at 2:00 pm on May 18th, 2009 by Rich