What is it about larger-than-life versions of things that makes them so awesome? We’re not sure exactly, but this giant working Arduino definitely has the ‘it’ factor, whatever that may be. It’s twelve times the size of a regular Uno and has a Nano embedded in the back of it. To give you an idea of the scale, the reset button is an arcade button.
The Arduino Giga’s PCB is made of 3/4″ plywood, and the giant components represent a week and a half of 3D printing. The lettering and pin numbers are all carved on a CNC and filled in with what appears to be caulk. They didn’t get carved out deeply enough the first time around, but [byte sized] came up with a clever way to perfectly re-register the plywood so it carved in exactly the same places.
Although we love everything about this build, our favorite part has to be the way that [byte sized] made the female headers work. Each one has a 1/4″ audio jack embedded inside of it (a task which required a special 3D printed tool), so patch cables are the new jumper cables. [byte sized] put it to the test with some addressable RGB LEDs on his Christmas tree, which you can see in the build video after the break.
You can buy one of those giant working 555 timer kits, but why not just make one yourself?
You should simply delete hackaday from your bookmarks then.
You’ll find a site where there is only news that’s interesting to you, I’m sure!
Goodbye!
Or perhaps HaD should listen and learn from their mistakes. You may survive by catering to imbeciles, but what a life…
This is a great educational tool for students. A great way to teach a class and definitely hands on. Maybe even 6 hands.
The polarity marker on one of the electrolytic caps is turned at weird angle.
must have slipped a bid during solder re-flow, it’s passed test so nothing to worry about
And it is even one of the cheap ones with a CH340…
bye
He could do that with several 555… Like this one https://imgur.com/gallery/kTYBJ
Awesome!
Or you cold just keep scrolling instead of whining. You create anything more interesting you think they should be featuring?
the worlds biggest “insert object name here”
“object” name as in C++?
No big deal.
object reference not set to instance of object
Sheldon: I recently had a dream that I was giant, but everything around me was to scale, so it all looked normal.
Leonard: How did you know you were a giant if everything was to scale?
Sheldon: I was wearing size “a million” pants.
I laughed out loud when I saw he wasn’t using an Arduino Uno but a Nano with a breakout board instead, and I’m not even sure if it’s an original or a clone.
Funny when it comes from a person taking the time to watch the video and even comment under the post
that takes quite a bit less time
Now that’s a well fed troll!
Imagine him teaching a class with this thing. He could be up front patching it to oversized sensors, leds, motors or whatever while the class follows along each at their desks with normal sized components. Awesome!
Sort of like the large slide rule that hung from the top of the chalkboard in Math class.
The WHAT that hung from the WHAT in the WHAT class??
LOL!
I mean… its not even the biggest.
https://milwaukeemakerspace.org/sites/default/files/u33/Parade_Up1_2.jpg
And who cares if it is “functional” if that just means its essentially a cardboard cutout with jumpers to the fake pins. Is i t neat, yes… its it laudable to the extent that it makes hackaday… probably not.
Aw c’mon. It made us laugh.
And those pin headers…
I’m with you, bro. It’s nerd (which today is actually pretty cool) art.