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Arduino Project Upgrades With 2 New Boards
EqualSlash writes "The Arduino Project is releasing two new boards — Arduino Uno to replace Duemilanove and Arduino Mega 2560 to replace the existing Arduino Mega board. With Uno, the board is not just getting a new pronunciation-friendly name but also has a custom-made USB-serial converter to replace the older FTDI chipset, thereby removing the need to install drivers (they now have their own USB Vendor ID). It now has a logo and stylish packaging, and soon will have its own branded web store. A new Ethernet integrated board and a tinkering toolkit will be made available shortly."
Just in time for my gibaboo project. Hope the ISA accelerator supports G5 ALG microcode. Is it still using S-100 pinout adaptor? The heat dissipation core was generating impedance mismatch exception.
From http://arduino.cc/blog/2010/09/24/dinner-is-ready/
more advanced users will be able to reprogram the USB chip to make the board show up as a variety of USB devices (Keyboards, Mice, Joysticks, MIDI etc)
How bout a PS3 controller?
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
They must be running their webserver on an Arduino.
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
in fact, you can build an atmel 328 chip with a 16mhz resonator, 1 or 2 resistors, 1 or 2 caps and some wire. its REALLY that trivial.
You have a goldmine there - I'm sure Atmel would pay a lot to be able to duplicate their IC functionality with a few discrete components!