{"id":69,"date":"2009-04-02T13:34:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T18:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/2009\/04\/02\/arduino-mega-is-made-of-win\/"},"modified":"2009-04-02T13:34:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T18:34:48","slug":"arduino-mega-is-made-of-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Arduino MEGA is made of win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and it&#8217;s rather large.<\/p>\n<p>Something that has continually bugged me about the various flavors of Arduino is the number of pins that there are not 8 of. As in, 5 analog pins or 6 PWM pins or whatever. I end up adding multiplexors so I can drive 8 PWM outputs or read 8 sensors or what-have-you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nkcelectronics.com\/arduino-mega.html\">Arduino MEGA<\/a> fixes all my problems, at the cost of size and a few extra $$$:<\/p>\n<p>PWM: 14 pins, I&#8217;ll try not to complain about it not being 16<\/p>\n<p>Analog Input: 16 pins<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all the extra I\/O, I was able to ditch a specialized, $25 PWM controller and some support hardware and move my entire project from a pc board to an Arduino MEGA shield.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]arduino mega[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and it&#8217;s rather large. Something that has continually bugged me about the various flavors of Arduino is the number of pins that there are not 8 of. As in, 5 analog pins or 6 PWM pins or whatever. I end up adding multiplexors so I can drive 8 PWM outputs or read 8 sensors or [&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-69","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\/69","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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}