About this project
The Sirduino
The Simply Integrated Rduino
Introducing the Sirduino: A board of many Hats.The Sirduino is an open source, Arduino compatible electronics learning tool powered by Atmel's XMEGA family of processors.
Why the Sirduino?
What if you could easily put more than one shield on an Arduino? What if you knew that there weren't going to be hardware conflicts? We saw the need to create a more flexible, more capable electronics development board that is easy to use and inexpensive.Our concept is to mix and match and do more! We have created a board that easily connects the functionality of up to 5 expansion boards. We call these expansion boards Hats. We have designed the Hats so that any combination of them can be used simultaneously without the worry of hardware conflicts.
We found that while the Arduino's ease of use is tremendous, it's expandibility is limited. So we created a device that is more powerful than the Arduino MEGA, yet has a price point comparable to the Arduino Uno.
Sirduino vs. Arduino
The Sirduino can have up to five Hats.The Arduino can have just one shield. The five expansion slots means 5x functionality of a standard Aduino right out of the box!
Every Sirduino has a general purpose button and a reset button, Arduinos only have a reset button.
The Sirduino has 100 thou spacing for easy prototyping. Arduinos do not.
The Sirduino has native USB, the Arduino Uno does not.
The Sirduino has 4 on board DACs, the Arduino has none.
Sirduino has 78 GPIO, the Arduino has 20.
The Sirduino has 16 analog pins, the Arduino has 6.
The Hats (so far..)
How do you 'Duino?
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Risks and challenges
With all projects, there are inherent risks involved and this project is no different. There are basically 3 challenges that we need to overcome.
The first has to do with the availability of the Processor. The ATXMEGA128A1U is a new part, and it's availability is limited right now. There is currently a 3 month lead time. This is why we have a promised delivery date of May. We will order the processor as soon as our project is funded.
While those parts are on order, we will work on the next challenge, which is to finish the Arduino bootloader port to this processor and also to write libraries for all of our hats so that you can start your fun as soon as you receive the Sirduino.
The last challenge is to finish up the development of all of our other hats that are in development. These hats include, but are not necessarily limited to, Servo Control, Motor Drive, Prototyping, Ethernet, WiFi. Accelerometer, GPS, GSM, and Character Display Hat. Basically, we would like for the Sirduino with accompanying Hats to be as functional as any Arduino/Shield combination that you can buy. The development of these Hats may not be complete by the time we ship the Sirduino to you, but we hope to have them completed as soon as we can.
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