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ARDUINO BOARDS
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Uno Mega Nano

Arduino Uno
Arduino UNO is the most famous board in the Arduino family after Arduino"Duemilanove."It is the latest design of the basic USB board and one of the more stable Arduino platforms to date. The board contains everything that a mid sized 8-bit microcontroller project needs and is the standard kit for people looking to start out in Arduino, due to its compatibility and prevalence.!

Specifications
Processor Operating Voltage / Input Voltage 5V/7-12V CPU Analog Digital IO EEPROM Speed In / Out / PWM (Mhz) 16 6/0 14/6 1 SRAM Flash! USB (kB) 2 32 Regular

ATmega328

Advantages

- Improved USB interface which allows the Arduino to interface with Windows and OSX - The Uno can also be recognized as an input device, such as a keyboard or mouse, which - There are a lot of shields to expend its functionality.! - An open source design. The advantage of it being open source is that it has a large
community of people using and troubleshooting it. This makes it easy to nd someone to help you debug your projects.! - Very convenient power management and built-in voltage regulation. You can connect an external power source of up to 12v and it will regulate it to both 5v and 3.3v. It also can be powered directly off of a USB port without any external power.! - A 16mhz clock. This makes it not the speediest microcontroller around, but fast enough for most applications.! opens up a lot of input/output possibilities for the platform.! without drivers (though Windows users still require a .inf le).!

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Disadvantages

- Limited processing power! - No data storage!

Price

- EUR 22,99: Amazon!

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Arduino Mega

The Mega is the second most commonly encountered version of the Arduino family. The Arduino Mega is like the Arduino Unos big brother. Purchase the Mega when you have a clear need for the additional input-output pins and larger memory. Its ideal for those larger projects that control lots of LEDs, have a large number of inputs and outputs. However, all of the added functionality comes at the cost of a slightly larger circuit board. It may make your project more powerful, but it will also make your project larger.!

Specifications
Processor Operating Voltage / Input Voltage 5V/7-12V CPU Analog Digital IO EEPROM Speed In / Out / PWM (Mhz) 16 16/0 54/15 4 SRAM Flash! (kB) 8 USB

ATmega256 0

256 Regula r

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Advantages
The Mega provides signicantly increased input-output functionality ! Increased memory! 4 Serial ports! The Mega works with the majority of the shields available! Support for I2C/TWI!

Disadvantages

- One of the difculties of the mega board is that all the pins are different so most tutorials
who are aimed at the UNO board or the Duemilanove or Diecimila are useless because the Mega board pinout is different. To know which pinout is needed for the Arduino Mega 2560 the arduino.cc website has a special webpage:("http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ ArduinoBoardMega2560) .!

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Price

- EUR 46,95: Amazon!

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Arduino Nano

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As its name, Arduino Nano is a compact and breadboard-friendly version board based on ATmega328 processor. It is more or less same functionality as the Arduino UNO but in different package. Instead of using the standard USB to connect to the computer, it uses the mini usb but without the power plug for external power source that built on Arduino UNO. The dimension of Arduino Nano is only 43mm x 18mm reducing the size of any robotics or motorised project.!

Specifications
Processor Operating Voltage / Input Voltage 5V / 7-9V! CPU Analog Digital IO EEPRO Speed In / Out / PWM M (Mhz) 16 8/0 14/6 1 SRAM Flash! (kB) 2 USB

ATmega328

32 Mini-B!

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Advantages
Compact and powerful! It contains the same microcontroller (ATmega328) but in SMD form! has all the I/O pins (plus two extra analogue inputs)! Perfect for breadboarding!

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Disadvantages Price

- Does not use standard Arduino shields! - EUR 14,99: Amazon!

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