{"id":60,"date":"2009-01-08T18:59:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T23:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/2009\/01\/08\/sanguino-first-impressions\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T18:59:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T23:59:15","slug":"sanguino-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Sanguino: First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/reprap.org\">reprap<\/a> people have a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\" title=\"arduino\">arduino<\/a>-like out, the <a href=\"http:\/\/\">Sanguino.<\/a> It uses the Atmel atmega644p, so it has 4x the memory, 14 more i\/o pins, and JTAG support.<\/p>\n<p>I ordered a couple of kits and soldered them up. Instructions are easy to follow, both for soldering up the board and for modifying Arduino to support the new chip. However, I ran into two problems right off the start, one of which would have probably stymied someone without any arduino\/microcontroller experience.<\/p>\n<p>1) No bootloader was installed on the Atmel. This is not the end of the world if you have a bootloader lying around. We had one in studio, but I can&#8217;t find it and everyone else is out of country\/town. I took this as a sign that I should have my own, so I ordered a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ladyada.net\/make\/usbtinyisp\/index.html\">USBtinyISP<\/a>&#8216;s from Limor (always buy two of anything you rely upon), soldered them up, and bootloaded the Sanguino. I wrote a simple sketch that blinks the debug LED, pushed it to the Sanguino and yea, everything works now!<\/p>\n<p>Now, to try replacing the Arduino nano or mini on one of my project boards. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2) Oh. How cute. It won&#8217;t work on a breadboard. The spacing on the Sanguino pins is so wide that when it&#8217;s plugged into the center of ye olde standard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?q=breadboard\">breadboard<\/a>, you can&#8217;t access one side of the Sanguino&#8217;s pins. That is, if you put one side of the Sanguino in column b so that you can use column a, the other side is in column j, not in column i. Looking at the board layout, I think this could have been completely avoided by moving the pins in a &#8220;row&#8221; on each side, and putting the labels for the pins inbetween the pins ala the Nano.<\/p>\n<p>Yuck. I guess I&#8217;ll have to get clever if I want to use this with my existing projects.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]arduino, sanguino[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reprap people have a new arduino-like out, the Sanguino. It uses the Atmel atmega644p, so it has 4x the memory, 14 more i\/o pins, and JTAG support. I ordered a couple of kits and soldered them up. Instructions are easy to follow, both for soldering up the board and for modifying Arduino to support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arduino","category-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}