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bijouboard

This project has beed pwned by Jockiboard. ;)

The bijouboard will be an ultra cheap and small development platform.

bijouboard-tn.jpg

Estimated contribution towards costs for members: 3,50€ á kit.

All project files will be released under the terms of the BSD3 license after the first device was sucessfully build and tested.

Admin: Micha

ToDo

Features

Design goals

Problems (to be solved)

clearances.jpg

Hardware

Pin mapping

Layout diagram

Required components

Quantity Component Name Value Package Price Order number 1)
1 ATmega8 IC1 TQFP 2.30€ ATMEGA 8-16 TQ
1 Crystal Q1 16MHz HC49 0.26€ 16,0000-HC49-SMD
2 Ceramic capacitor C1,C2 22pF 0603 0.10€ NPO-G0603 22P
1 Ceramic capacitor C3 100n 0603 0.05€ X7R-G0603 100N
1 Electrolytic capacitor C4 1µF 0.04€ SMD ELKO 1,0/50
1 LED LED1 1206 0.10€ SMD-LED 1206 GN
2 Z-Diode D1,D2 3.6V SOT-23 0.10€ SMD ZD 3,6
1 Resistor R1,R2 68Ω 0603 0.10€ SMD-0603 68
1 Resistor R5 220Ω 0603 0.10€ SMD-0603 220
1 Resistor R3 1.5kΩ 0603 0.10€ SMD-0603 1,5K
1 Resistor R6 10kΩ 1206 0.10€ SMD 1/4W 10K
1 Resistor R4 1MΩ 0603 0.10€ SMD-0603 1,0M
1 Tactical switch S1 LSG 0.29€ TASTER 9313
1 USB-B Mini female connector X1 0.24€ USB BWM SMD
2 1ח12 Pinhead JP1,JP2 0.14€ SL 1X36G 2,54
1 1ח2 Pinhead JP3 ?
1 Epoxy PCB board 1.05€‚ EPCU 120×80
- Time at shackspace priceless
Total 5.17€

Software

Boot loader

bijouboard is best used with USBaspLoader. This is a boot loader which emulates USBasp, a USB based AVR programmer. To avoid a license conflict, a pre-configured version will separately be available.

The boot loader is quite easy to use. Set the 'Enable boot loader' jumper on the device, connect it to the host computer and (if not bus powered) issue a Reset on the AVR. You can now flash the device with AVRDUDE through a „virtual“ USBasp programmer.

Arduino IDE

In order to upload firmware from Arduino's IDE, the file 'hardware/arduino/boards.txt' in Arduino's main folder must be changed. Add the following lines at the end of the file:

##############################################################

bijouboard.name=bijouboard

bijouboard.upload.protocol=usbasp
bijouboard.upload.maximum_size=6336
bijouboard.upload.speed=19200

bijouboard.build.mcu=atmega8
bijouboard.build.f_cpu=16000000L
bijouboard.build.core=arduino

bijouboard.upload.disable_flushing=true

##############################################################

Comments

Using as USB-to-Serial_5V Adaptor?

Arduino compatible HW (without USB) sometimes has some 6 pin header for a „FTDI Basic breakout“ on it. I don't know how popular that pinout is, but I have that connector on the DIYGeigerCounter.

There are some ready-to-use USB cables with the 6pin on the other side, also some FTDI-boards with mini-usb to 6pin. But prices seem to be higher than this project and sometimes it is not easy to get.

It looks like this projects could be also used for this if there was just a female plug with the right pinout that fits on that 6pin header. As such stuff tends to be plugged rather often, a plug soldered to the pcb is preferrable over just using some lose wire with the plug.

Does adding 6 pins with the right pinout at the edge of the board sound like an interesting addition?

Plus one of course needs some USB-to-serial firmware on it that works with the usual OSes and e.g. the Arduino SW.

Thomas Waldmann 2011/11/20 02:26