![]() You have the option to power it off if you are not using it. Plus you still have an onboard ESP8266 as well so your Wifi needs have been taken care of. They got 53 IO pins (vs 86 for the ATmega1280/2560).They're been around for more than a decade, and can be found in a lot of different equipment.They're still hand solderable (The TQFP variant have 0.8mm pin pitch).They're dirt cheap (can be bought for less than a dollar at AliExpress and Ebay).m128 was simply forgotten but has stayed popular among pure AVR programmers and not programming through famous Arduino IDE. Back then m128 was 20x times expensive and although m8(ng) was 10x times expensive it was affordable and had advantage of dip support. they were replaced by better known mega8(ng). There were some fragments left in the original arduino core but the support for it was dropped years ago. Many don't know this, but m128 was the original arduino before it was even called arduino. The list of chips and components keeps increasing as the product becomes more complex ofcourse and after prototyping one can easily shift towards powerful chips if necessary. To do all these powerful things with just one small board and to keep it simple and arduino IDE compatible was the idea behind Winkel Board. And not every project can be housed with an Arduino with all its shields, and some projects just require to use many communication protocols at once and need to perform a lot of calculations and I/O operations. Some suggested RPi 3 can be an answer for many projects but not every project needs an O.S. We talked to a lot of makers and electronic hobbyists and found that this was a common problem within the maker community and not just in India but all over the world. Being from India, such shields were really costly to source from outside + it really affected the speed of prototyping. Well ofcourse we had an Arduino Board to get started with but had to buy and experiment with different shields everytime and that costed us a lot of time and money. We were building an IoT product and wanted to experiment with different communication protocols, like radio, wifi, bluetooth and found ourselves in a mess while doing so. Secondary things would involve using some sort of WiFi controller if the project has something to do with connecting to the internet or providing an adhoc hostspot, or one may require radio controllers if the project has something to do with creating a mesh or building a simple robot or a drone. Be it any product or project, one would primarily need a powerful set of I/O pins to get started with and would need some a simple IDE to embed a code on it. Winkel has almost everything On Board, that a maker would initially need to kickstart the prototyping of an idea. Even if you do not wish to support us, as the campaign progresses we will be uploading all the blue prints and sketches on GitHub for public access :)ĪRM cortex are really amazing when it comes down to building complex projects where performance and efficiency is needed say for example a robot for doing a complex realtime task where the huge RAM and 32bit architecture is a boon. We will be starting a crowdfunding campaign soon at The Winkel Project where you can sign up for early access. ![]() The purpose of this post is to get feedback about this board and to make improvements before our crowdfunding campaign launch, so that the we can fine tune the board to be more impactful. I have written a small intro post on Arduino Forum where you can read everything about this arduino compatible board here I am Rishi Hegde and i have teamed up with a buddy of mine and have built a unique Open Source Hardware development platform for makers and hardware hackers who can build stuffs quickly without worrying about the complexities that comes around with starting one.
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