hey all, I'm thinking about mass producing an ardunios that will be avaliable to consumers for a very cheap price. What are design features that you would all like? Would you like it to be in a Arduino Nano form factor?
Hi,
just spend a few hours reading the forums and you will certainly find out what people want!
Then you make a few prototypes and send them to some of the more active forum users for free for testing and feedback.
With the revised hardware edition from this process you might get a chance to get people interested in your product.
Eberhard
One thing i've heard people would like is an on/off switch.
One thing i personally do not like are boards that have non-removable chips.
There are many Arduino compatible boards out at very competitive prices, starting at $11.50, not to mention the real thing is pretty reasonably priced. In order to achieve what you are setting out to do i would review those boards and see what is lacking.
I read on a separate thread the arduino programing environment could be used to program other AVRs than the atmega168. If passable a board that is compatible with larger more capable chips or even smaller less expensive chips, for those simpler more compact projects, would be cool.
I wouldn't mind seeing a real time clock on the Arduino. DS1307 is about $3.60 at Jameco.
I also would not mind seeing external EEPROM, accessible similar to the EEPROM.read/write call methods.
With a library and maybe a jumper, perhaps the RTC/EEPROM would be invisible to those who don't need it. If you do need it, just read up on the library and jumper, and go.
Just an idea from a beginner.