Introduction

Today we introduce you to the Ardweeny from Solarbotics. The Ardweeny is the smallest bread board friendly Arduino compatible component. The Ardweeny sits on top of an ATMega 328 chip and easily mounts to a bread board giving you a minimal footprint. Furthermore, the backpack kit comes with headers which allow you to plug in a USB-to-TTL FTDI type cable or adapter. Lastly, it fits on an Atmel ATmega168 as well!

Features

• Fully Arduino-compatible!
• Stacks onto the back of an ATmega328 chip (included)
• Takes same 28-pin footprint as the microcontroller itself!
• Features Pin-13 LED and reset button
• Simple construction - only 7 parts plus pins & PCB!
• Ideal for breadboard applications

Building

Whats in the kit?


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Conclusion

In a nutshell, this is a great kit to get you started with the basics of electronics. You will get to solder and start programming against a microcontroller that is popular and supported by a large community. Like other Solarbotics kits, this is intended for educational purposes and meant to be a learning experience. However, you can easily take the Ardweeny and make it do whatever a standard Arduino board may do. Provided ofcourse, you use a prototyping board/bread board to help you out with this.

Links

• Solarbotics Website
• DIYbin.com
• Ardweeny Product Details
• Ardweeny Manual