[Noisebridge-discuss] MCHCK - The $5 ARM mcu board

[David Rorex]

Finally got my kit over the weekend, plan to try soldering one tomorrow
night at Ace Monster Toys if anybody else got some and wants to join in.
http://www.meetup.com/Ace-Monster-Toys/events/146562472/


On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 2:07 PM, David Rorex <drorex at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been following this project for a while, their goal is to produce a
> small ARM board with everything you need to program it built in for only $5
> -- the idea being that at that price, you can stick them everywhere and not
> have to worry about the cost. They are now close to being finished, and are
> trying to raise enough money to get some prototypes out into the hands of
> hackers looking to play with them. You can see details on the project here:
> http://mchck.org/
>
> *Features*
>> *open:* entirely open source hardware and software
>> *powerful: *ARM Cortex-M4 with DSP extensions, 50MHz, 32KB code flash,
>> 8KB RAM, 32KB data flash
>> *easy to use:* programmable via USB; USB 2.0 full speed device and host
>> in hardware
>> *massive connectivity: *10 PWM outputs, 12 analog inputs, 29 GPIOs, 6
>> serial interfaces, 14 touch sense inputs
>> *low power:* can run directly from a coin cell battery for months
>> *extensible: *add LiPo battery charger, 2.4GHz radio, extra flash
>> memory, all without additional boards
>> *small:* only 50mm*19mm / 1.97in*0.75in
>> *cheap:* $5 to build at home
>
>
>
> They need to sell 50 in order to get bulk pricing on stuff, for $60 (which
> includes shipping) you get:
>
>> 5 boards + all the parts needed for them
>> 2 RF communications boards (NRF24L01+)
>> 2 LiPo battery charger ICs
>> 2 180mAh LiPo batteries
>> 2 1MB SPI flash ICs
>> 3 different power regulators (so you can run from a variety of power
>> sources)
>> 2 microUSB jacks (the boards themselves will plug into a USB port
>> directly, the optional jack allows you to instead use a USB cable)
>
>
> I've already ordered a kit, I'm thus spamming you all in the hopes that
> others will as well and I can get my boards (I have an unhealthy addiction
> to small inexpensive microcontroller boards)
> link to order here --> https://github.com/mchck/mchck/wiki/Prototypes
> Note that this is not a finished product yet -- you'll either need a bit
> of experience with ARM and microcontroller dev, or be willing to wait to
> use the boards until they finish all the software and iron out any issues
> that may arise.
>
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