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Arduino Mega, first look

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This appears to be the first photo of the Arduino Mega “in the wild” via HaD. There’s no pricing yet.

The specs seem to be:

  • 128KB of Flash
  • 4KB RAM
  • 4KB EEPROM
  • 53 IO
  • 4 HW UARTs
  • 14 PWMs
  • I2C bus
  • 16 Analog Input pins


17 Comments »

  1. Wow, that’s some pretty amazing specs. I just finished building a Sanguino and have an Illuminato on the way, for their extended I/0 ports and flash/RAM….

    Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to get this too! =)

    Comment by D. Agnir — March 16, 2009 @ 8:19 pm

  2. ‘duinos are like chocolates, you can’t just have one!

    Any idea on the clock rate?

    Comment by Sean — March 16, 2009 @ 8:42 pm

  3. Wow, that would make a pretty serious entry level home automation controller. Add an Ethernet stack and you could use it as self monitoring security system with email alerts. It would SMOKE ADI’s Ocelot piece by a LONG shot.

    Comment by AnthonyZ — March 16, 2009 @ 9:31 pm

  4. Oh! It’s better than wiring board~
    Maybe sometime we can have all AVRs in the name of Arduino.

    Comment by MrKiss — March 17, 2009 @ 12:05 am

  5. I want it!!!!! Gimmi gimmi gimmi!!!

    Comment by Fish — March 17, 2009 @ 5:00 am

  6. Damn, they stick with the original formfactor with the misplaced pinheader for pins 8-13. when are they finaly going to correct that…

    Comment by simon — March 17, 2009 @ 6:10 am

  7. Well the first good picture, I published one on my blog a couple of days before that during Ignite at ETech when Tom announced it… ;)

    http://www.dailyack.com/2009/03/etech-ignite-etech.html

    Comment by Alasdair Allan — March 17, 2009 @ 6:24 am

  8. simon, they never will correct the misalignment in 8-13, because that would break backwards-compatibility with all the existing shields. http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/BugsDiscussion

    Comment by drew — March 17, 2009 @ 9:39 am

  9. sean, the specs for the 1280 say max clock rate 16MHz.
    http://www.atmel.com/dyn/Products/product_card.asp?part_id=3633

    Comment by drew — March 17, 2009 @ 9:40 am

  10. Thanks adafruit

    Comment by LusoRob — March 17, 2009 @ 10:32 am

  11. <homer>Mmmmm. Mega</homer>

    Comment by chas — March 17, 2009 @ 6:17 pm

  12. Does any of the Arduino’s support more than 10bit analog? I’d like to see more than 1024 for better resolution.

    Comment by Bill Peck — March 19, 2009 @ 1:36 pm

  13. Isn’t this like the Robostix?

    Comment by Norwegian — March 22, 2009 @ 12:09 pm

  14. Have you seen Paul Stoffregons Teensy++ yet?

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

    (dumb name great board).

    At $25 it should be a contender

    Comment by Donald Delmar Davis — March 27, 2009 @ 2:10 pm

  15. Ouch! 72 bucks. Like wiring only different somehow…

    http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=262&osCsid=b66284cf580c72743c122bd38211dfda&currency=USD

    Comment by Donald Delmar Davis — March 27, 2009 @ 2:16 pm

  16. And of course the “other” contender for the Arduino Supercomputer of the year award – the Illuminato:

    http://www.liquidware.com/shop/show/ILL/Illuminato

    Comment by mircho — April 2, 2009 @ 10:39 pm

  17. Can Arduino Mega use with Ethernet Shield or XBee Shield??

    Comment by alex — September 2, 2009 @ 12:38 pm

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