Making a brand new pro board?

Projects General Guidance
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Over the year, I have designed few atmega328 based boards. now I am thinking about making a board similar to the arduino pro, but instead of triangle in shape, it's circular. Maybe it looks like a lilypad, but very different. The problem, and I am not criticizing, for the Pro is that it lacks ICSP header, uploading with UART is not very fun, and for the lilypad, it's a little too big. SO what I have in mind is a board with best of both worlds. small like a pro; circular like a lilypad; but the idea really came from a circular led clock that I made. Circular boards are fun.

I am trying to make this into a commercial product. Is this something that will interest you? Any suggestion?




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How come all your pics are for rectangular boards?

How small (millimetres) will your board be?

I might be interested if on one direction it is no more than 15mm (but I can't see myself wanting more than one or two at a price of about £3 to £5).

...R

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Robin2:
How come all your pics are for rectangular boards?

How small (millimetres) will your board be?

I might be interested if on one direction it is no more than 15mm (but I can't see myself wanting more than one or two at a price of about £3 to £5).

...R

The first photo is a round board. 15mm is reasonable request, but then other things can't be added to the board, only a bare board with the IC. I am really thinking about using a diameter of about 23mm, the size of a US quarter. If I am going to make 1000 pcs of these, the minimal price for each board will be about $3.5 usd.

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The first photo is a round board.

Really ?

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arduinomagbit:
Really ?

First photo in his posting shows up as a "broken link".

The linked website where the photo is hosted seems to use counter-measures against bandwidth-stealing by deep linking, so photo links have a very short lifetime, most likely.

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UKHeliBob:
Really ?

yep







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jurs:
First photo in his posting shows up as a "broken link".

The linked website where the photo is hosted seems to use counter-measures against bandwidth-stealing by deep linking, so photo links have a very short lifetime, most likely.

it is from http://postimage.org/; Postimage.org was founded in 2004 to provide forums with an easy way to upload images for free.

probably got censored/blocked in your country.

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Robin2:
How come all your pics are for rectangular boards?

How small (millimetres) will your board be?

I might be interested if on one direction it is no more than 15mm (but I can't see myself wanting more than one or two at a price of about £3 to £5).

...R

Prototype is done.

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Which of the 4 is your prototype - or perhaps all of them are?

...R

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You will know it is successful when it appears on eBay for $3. :grinning:

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Robin2:
Which of the 4 is your prototype - or perhaps all of them are?

...R

all of them are. actually, there are only 3 boards. 2 of them are the same.

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Paul__B:
You will know it is successful when it appears on eBay for $3. :grinning:

In that case, it will never be successful. I can offer the board file for free, but don't think anyone will clone it.

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arduinomagbit:
I can offer the board file for free, but don't think anyone will clone it.

Do you plan to sell the completed devices?

If so, please post the specs (and the price) for the small round one.

...R

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Robin2:
Do you plan to sell the completed devices?

If so, please post the specs (and the price) for the small round one.

...R

I am selling the red round one in ebay for $4.99 (atmega8) and $5.99 (atmega328) as a kit, and the other black one with the 7-segment LED display (atmega8) $5.99. shipping oversea is too expensive, but please take a look. I don't think the blue one is interesting to anyone because it's less powerful. it has an attiny85 ic and a 74hc595 on the back. I mainly use it to control some LED strips

black: http://www.ebay.com/itm/291675468088
Red: http://www.ebay.com/itm/301864002576

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Thanks. I'm in the UK.

...R