nice.

Posted at 3:13 pm on Jul 13th, 2009 by googfan

Ordered.

I swear, Arduino is like the crack of the electronics world…cheap and highly addictive! :)

Posted at 3:32 pm on Jul 13th, 2009 by pburgess

I’m getting one as soon as possible!

Posted at 3:41 pm on Jul 13th, 2009 by TheFish

@pburgess
How can you say $35 is cheap when you could buy PDIP versions of the same chips for nearly 1/10th of the cost?

By all means, take as much crap, (oh, you said crack, my bad) you want…

Of note, I have nothing against the Arduino platform. It is awesome for rapid development and prototyping, but most folks stop there and call that good.

Posted at 4:15 pm on Jul 13th, 2009 by ReKlipz

what is the poin of nano Arduino ? want a smaller size ? well it will newer be smaller than bare chip

Posted at 4:27 pm on Jul 13th, 2009 by therian

There are so many projects that are temporary, maybe you just want to test a concept without rummaging through a parts bin or lengthy datasheet. The Arduino is perfect for this. And if $35 is within someone’s budget to not attempt a smaller/cheaper design, what’s wrong with that? It helps support the project :)

Posted at 6:12 pm on Jul 13th, 2009 by macegr

“Like other new Arduino designs, it’s using the ATmega328 instead of the ATmega168″

Blow up the picture of the ATmega :)

Posted at 6:54 pm on Jul 13th, 2009 by Novice

I bought one of these a couple months ago. Cheaper:

http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/

Posted at 7:41 pm on Jul 13th, 2009 by macona

I’m really curious why no one is using the propeller for anything. Really. Sure, I assume spin sucks, but it works and the chip can run on C or assembly just as easy.

Posted at 9:29 pm on Jul 13th, 2009 by Life2Death

AWW CRAP! And I just bought a serial board and a Duemilanove!
Sucks, man. >:(

Posted at 10:00 pm on Jul 13th, 2009 by Taylor

IIRC they were advertising the 1st nano with something like “It�s a four-layer board with power and ground planes to help provide ICs with sufficient charge during switching and reduce noise (EMC) on high speed switching I/O pins. Ground plane help reduce radiation (EMI). Power plane is low in inductance; therefore any transients that may develop on the power line will be at lower levels. ”
maybe the manufacturing costs were too high?
or the 4 layers board was not worth? ;)

Posted at 2:30 am on Jul 14th, 2009 by liuc

Life2Death thanks for mentioning propeller, very interesting. I need to look into it more, see no mention of OSX/Mac development platform (still need to hit google).

Posted at 3:06 am on Jul 14th, 2009 by Gary

I was wondering when they were going to do this. Now that it’s a 2 layer board, it’s as cheap as the Duemilanove. No, it’s not as small or as cheap as the ‘bare chip’, but the bare chip doesn’t have an a power regulator or usb. Hell, you can’t even interface the ‘bare chip’ to serial without a level shifter. So, add all that to your ‘bare chip’ and see which is smaller.

For me personally, I like the nano when space is a big concern (http://hackaday.com/2009/06/30/custom-car-door-keypad/) and the RBBB when you have a little more room.

Posted at 6:25 am on Jul 14th, 2009 by Mike

from my experience and various sources, the avr chip from which the arduino gets *all* its technical features (in case you didn’t know) seems pretty resistant to electric noise (efficient on-chip decoupling) so a 4-layer board was pretty overkill.

Posted at 7:04 am on Jul 14th, 2009 by lekernel

Eh, $35 isn’t too bad, but you can still get the bare chips for $3 so I really don’t see the point. Sure, it’s easier, but c’mon, learning to do it the “real” way isn’t that much harder, and don’t we all want to get more skills?

I really suggest everyone look up how to program an AVR by itself. At its simplest you can borrow a friend’s programmer if avaliable, load a bootloader on it (also easy, just look it up) and then from then on you can load code via serial. It’s really not hard to start programming AVRs on the cheap. Also check out Sparkfun.com, they have some good tutorials.
-Taylor

Posted at 9:25 am on Jul 14th, 2009 by Taylor

@novice

haha your right, if you go look at the full size pic on the arduino website, the chip clearly says 168 instead of 328

Posted at 12:35 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by jamieriddles

@jamieriddles

isn’t that just an old pic of the old 4-layer nano?

Posted at 1:21 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by 24601

The board claearly says V3.0. Also, the schematic at the website to pre order them has the V3.0 schematic with the 168 on it. What gives? All the pics at both site have the 168 chip.

Posted at 1:28 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by Joe

They could have been working on the 3.0 board purely for cost reduction well before they decided to put the 328 chip in them. The two changes didn’t have to happen at the same time. The two chips are pin compatible after all. Perhaps they decided to go both at the same time for simplicity of sale, or to make an even stronger reason to buy it. I get twice the memory now for 15 dollars less?!? Sold!

Posted at 5:09 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by Mike

hey arduino fans you will newer get ride of those tiny training wheals, newer

Posted at 8:03 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by therian