Does anybody know of a shield that converts a micro to the Uno's pinout form?
I have found a similar item for the Nano.
Rgds,
Neil.
Neil_Mudford:
Does anybody know of a shield that converts a micro to the Uno's pinout form?I have found a similar item for the Nano.
Rgds,
Neil.
Actually what you can do is get a Leonardo, and it is a Micro in the Uno form factor.
Leonardo is discontinued from arduino.cc store, but it is still produced as clones and widely available for $6 to $12 USD.
"Arduino Pro Micro" (an ATmega328 cpu on a tiny board without USB.)
or an "Arduino Micro" (an ATmega32u4 on a somewhat larger board WITH a USB connector)?
Not that I know of a breakout for either one, but they are substantially different...
westfw:
"Arduino Pro Micro" (an ATmega328 cpu on a tiny board without USB.)
Removed my incorrect and confusing post.
No, the ATmega328 is a pro Mini.
No, the ATmega328 is a pro Mini.
Ah. Technically correct. I wouldn't trust the various eBay sellers to get it right, though...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pro-Micro-AtMega328P-5V-16MHz-Replace-AtMega328P-Arduino-Pro-Mini-/141701341713?hash=item20fe0ee211:g:KG4AAOSwyQtVih31
(or even (cough) experienced arduino users, in casual conversations...)
that seller is unusually confused referring to "pro mini", "pro micro", AND "nano":
Package including: 1pcs Nano V3.0 with ATMEGA328P FT232 Chip Module
technically that last is what ebay protection will back in spite of the photo showing no usb at all. in practice this is a chance for the less scrupulous to get one for free. they tend to throw completely unrelated tags into the title to garner hits. i got a huge kick out of "arduino childrens tuxedo" and "arduino vegetable slicer".
fyi pro-micro and micro are the same with ATmega32U4. nano has ftdi or ch340 or other usb chip. promini/mini has none of the above, just m328. i used to favor promini until lately when nano actually became cheaper than it (even less than the cost of an m328 ic). ATmega32U4 never made much sense.
john1993:
I used to favor promini until lately when nano actually became cheaper than it (even less than the cost of an m328 ic).
Oh yes, where was that?
john1993:
ATmega32U4 never made much sense.
It does if you want HID.
Basically, that. I haven't been able to get them to even work yet, but haven't tried that hard.
john1993:
nano has ftdi or ch340 or other usb chip.
Genuine (do they exist on eBay?) have FT232, just about all the others have the CH340 - which is just fine, more reliable than the FTDI Windoze lottery. Neither has the re-programmability of the (actual) UNO interface, but you rarely wish that anyway.
And it continues to irk me that the CH340 variants are blatently fraudulently advertised as "UNO"s since lacking the 16U2, they are by definition a Duemilanove clone and bear no resemblance at all to a UNO.
Yes Uno with Ch340 are rather a duemilove except new pins SDA, SCL and Ioref which are UNO R3. It is important.
For me Uno and Nano do the same functions, Internals means are different, but externaly it is the same. Perhaps with Windows you have driver issues but with Linux there is nothing to do, Linux do the job automaticaly.
For me Uno and Nano are essentialy different form-factor.
The advantage of Nano is you can solder wire. Uno connectors are very bad quality.
68tjs:
Linux do the job automatically.
Yes, well of course it does, as that is the way it is designed. But people do - for some perverse reasons - want to use Windoze! 
68tjs:
The advantage of Nano is you can solder wire. UNO connectors are very bad quality.
Well, it has been commented that genuine UNO connectors are good, but the others ...
I'm not talking about the mechanical quality of the connectors I speak about the principle "Solder wire or plug Dupont connectors".
Dupont connectors are not made for final wiring but only for tests.
To be reliable a connection must be mechanically strong.
The shield assembly is stronger because of the large number of connections
Paul__B:
Oh yes, where was that?
nearly always on aliexpress and occasionally ebay. of course as indicated many times in the past you do need shopping skills to take advantage.
Paul__B:
It does if you want HID. I haven't been able to get them to even work yet,
thats because your using the wrong platform. hid is ridiculously easy with digispark/trinket or bare tiny. arduino or assembler. even chips with less than 512 instructions like t13. very nice to get linux or windows jumping through hoops w/o resorting to os programming. i use quite a few of them on rpi (0, 2, and recently 3) and pc. quite a deal for not much more than a buck (again ebay/ali clones, not official $10 digistump).
Paul__B:
Genuine (do they exist on eBay?)
quite common. usually "used/other" from somebody who regrets buying one and trying to sell as a collectable to some sucker so he can buy half dozen or so of the cheap ones.
Paul__B:
And it continues to irk me that the CH340 variants are blatently fraudulently advertised as "UNO"s since lacking the 16U2, they are by definition a Duemilanove clone and bear no resemblance at all to a UNO.
if by "no resemblance" you mean they look and act almost the same then you are correct. having ch340 not an exactly copy of either one though. i suspect if listed as duemilanove sales would plummet.
Paul__B:
for some perverse reasons - want to use Windoze!
mainly to avoid pain. some of the literally hundreds of distributions are worse than others in that respect. of course members of the "anything but ms" crowd (aka The One Percent), complete with secret handshakes and gang-signs, will disagree. i find windows the lesser of two evils. xp aint half bad once you grind down the sharp edges.
john1993:
mainly to avoid pain. some of the literally hundreds of distributions are worse than others in that respect. of course members of the "anything but ms" crowd (aka The One Percent), complete with secret handshakes and gang-signs, will disagree. i find windows the lesser of two evils. XP aint half bad once you grind down the sharp edges.
Pain you say? The vast majority of my pain is Windoze. I have no interest in "dozens of Linux distributions". What I do know is that Windoze became simply unusable on two netbooks with only 1 GB memory (XP on one, 7 on the other) which were rendered operable again by installing Mint. Unfortunately, I am constrained by my business software, somewhat amateurish in implementation, to using Windoze so the Win 7 machine dual boots and is just usable with that software as long as I do not open a Web browser (or email, or anything else).
But the difference in performance and reliability between the two operating systems is chalk and cheese. And the fact that no drivers are required for any of the USB adapters - or "web" cameras, or Android phones, or most WiFi dongles - on Mint puts it streets ahead for general use. In the absence of a particular application written to use Microsoft "Tonka Toys" construction kits, there is no reason to ever need Windoze.
what was that i said?
john1993:
of course members of the "anything but ms" crowd (aka The One Percent), complete with secret handshakes and gang-signs, will disagree.
lol. funny thing is 99% of linux users also run windows. 99% of windows users never even heard of linux. that says something. admittedly android seems to be gaining in popularity. invasion of The Tablet People. maybe one day all there will be.
And that is what I said - basically the only reason Linux users use Windoze, is that a program they are required to use for their work, is written for Windoze.
Mint (for example) looks after your Web browsing, email, word processing, Arduino programming and most other things, perfectly well (and as I said, better than Windoze). The only reason I pull my one solitary home PC using Windoze XP out of sleep is to print (not burn) CDs and to use a DOS editor (thus: XP) whose macro function I am too lazy to implement in vi.
I stop using Win$$ since 2002.
2000 --> Linux Mandriva
2006 --> Linux Debian
At the beginning I kept the dual boot.
One day in 2002 my motherboard died. I bought one that allowed me to keep the processor and memory XRAM.
I change motherboard.
At start up I boot on Linux -> everything OK
I try Win$$ -> nothing worked.
It was my personnal PC so although I had the official DVD**, legally bought,** I refused to reinstall this crap Win$$.