{"id":398,"date":"2014-02-10T15:53:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T15:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.4\/?p=398"},"modified":"2018-01-09T06:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T14:48:35","slug":"compact-arduino-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Compact Arduino Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few projects that I want to incorporate the Arduino micro controller.\u00a0 Most of my projects have been developed using the Uno board.\u00a0 This board has worked well and I&#8217;ve grown to rely on it.\u00a0 There is one challenge that I face using the Uno, it&#8217;s size.\u00a0 Although it&#8217;s small, it&#8217;s not compact enough for some of my projects.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, they do make them smaller, much smaller.\u00a0 I was able to source a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/products\/11113\">Pro Mini <\/a>from Sparkfun for a reasonable price.\u00a0 I found this review of the various clones on the market as well.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M_u7OWr5DN8\" height=\"135\" width=\"240\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Going back to the light and signal project I had done last quarter, the control unit would be a fraction of the size.\u00a0 The buck converter is just a bit bigger than the Pro Mini.\u00a0 Also, the helmet project I&#8217;m eager to start this quarter would benefit from this small controller as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few projects that I want to incorporate the Arduino micro controller.\u00a0 Most of my projects have been developed using the Uno board.\u00a0 This board has worked well and I&#8217;ve grown to rely on it.\u00a0 There is one challenge that I face using the Uno, it&#8217;s size.\u00a0 Although it&#8217;s small, it&#8217;s not compact enough for some of my projects. Fortunately, they do make them smaller, much smaller.\u00a0 I was able to source a Pro Mini from Sparkfun for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/?p=398\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}