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General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: frank26080115 on October 27, 2010, 10:27:52 PM

Title: USnooBie Kit - AVR USB Device Dev Kit
Post by: frank26080115 on October 27, 2010, 10:27:52 PM

The USnooBie is a microcontroller kit that does not require any sort of AVR programmer or USB-to-serial converters to load and run compiled code. It's hardware design allows the user to develop low cost USB devices with Atmel's AVR ATmega microcontrollers. It can also be used to develop projects which are not USB devices.
(http://frank.circleofcurrent.com/usnoobie/gfx/pic3.jpg)
(http://frank.circleofcurrent.com/usnoobie/gfx/pic4.jpg)
(http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/images/product/usnoobiekit500.jpg)

Check out more details and all the tutorials I wrote and filmed

http://frank.circleofcurrent.com/usnoobie/ (http://frank.circleofcurrent.com/usnoobie/)

Title: Re: USnooBie Kit - AVR USB Device Dev Kit
Post by: galannthegreat on October 28, 2010, 12:44:01 AM

Wow, that is a very nice device!

Title: Re: USnooBie Kit - AVR USB Device Dev Kit
Post by: Razor Concepts on October 28, 2010, 10:25:40 AM

Direct link to kit:
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/usnoobie-kit-p-708.html?cPath=104_128 (http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/usnoobie-kit-p-708.html?cPath=104_128)

At $16 its a pretty good deal IMO. sure beats a boarduino. My only concern is, can it act like a COM port for serial debugging?

Title: Re: USnooBie Kit - AVR USB Device Dev Kit
Post by: frank26080115 on October 28, 2010, 02:02:22 PM

There is a way to program it so that it becomes a serial port, however it takes up a lot of processor time. I don't think doing so would be good in a robotics application.

I designed it to be awesome for USB applications, I think for robotics, it will be great to act as a servo controller and analog input that plugs directly into a netbook.