A few week ago I bought 5 piece of ATMEGA88-PU on second-hand market (www.vatera.hu).The cost was holly low about 0.3$/piece. I'm going to design and make my own arduino like development board for easy prototyping . I used Eagle Cad for designing the PCB and I used toner transfer method for etching the PCB . Finally my first DIY PCB and my devboard for atmega88 is ready to go. This was the first prototype: Pin header for PORTB,PORTC and PORTD,ISP for Programing,GND and Vcc headers and Reset button 1 weeks later I realised some weaknesses: the power headers was broke I need to plug 2 usb device into my PC.A programer and an USB-Serial converter I can't see any heartbeat (onboard leds) I pimped up my board with some goodness: Arduino bootloader for programing over UART ( thx ) Extended Power headers Onboard dual leds and voltage regulator The other stuff on the left side is USB to Serial converter from Sony...
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