Hello Everyone,
For a bunch of long winded reasons I've really been enjoying the 1284 as an Arduino lately. Because of this I've decided to design 3 different Arduino compatible devices based on the 1284.
The first two "Mega Junior, 1284" and "Mega Junior, 1284 SMD" are the same layout as the UNO, and both have the FT232RL chip onboard.
The "Mega Junior, 1284" has a socket for a removable chip in 40 pin DIP format and the circuitry is laid out to maintain compatibility to the pinout of the Sanguino, and maniacbugs mighty 1284. (Hope I got that right).
The "Mega junior, 1284 SMD" uses the 44pin QFP version of the 1284 and is completely custom in the way of pinout and is designed to be as compatible as possible with the Arduino uno pin locations. For the initial revision of this board I've chosen to keep programming pins and interrupts in the proper location at the sacrifice of two properly placed pwm ports.
The "Mega Junior, 1284 BB" is designed as a breadboard model and also has onboard FT232RL and all the other features one might expect of an arduino.
In addition to the boards I will be maintaining repository for all source designs and a easy to install version of optiboot which will include firmwares for 8,16, and 20mhz for my 3 boards, AND all of the other common boards of utilizing the 1284. This project is of course open source, and I'm doing this to share with the community what I've done for myself.
The only board currently tested is the "Mega Junior, 1284".
If your interested in one and dont want to build your own, send me a PM and I might be able to get one built for you, I'll try to keep a few spare boards on hand.
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Boot loaders Available Now!
https://code.google.com/r/jbaum81-megajunior1284/source/browse
Download latest Zip and place the contents of the root "optiboot" folder into your Arduino hardware folder.
Includes latest ManiacBug's Mighty 1284p bootloaders with only small modifications to directory names. All other Items contained within are left untouched.
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