click boards™ meet Arduino
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Table of Contents Introduction to Flip & click 4 1. What’s on board? 5 2. Programming Flip & click 6 3. Code examples 7 4. Blue side 8 5. USB ports 9 6. White side 10 7. click boards™ 11 8.
A maker’s sidekick Meet Flip & click, Arduino’s close cousin. This board shares a lot of Arduino DNA — Atmel’s 32-bit AT91SAM3X8E MCU, the familiar pinout, firmware to program it like a regular Arduino — but it has a tendency to flip. When it does, you’ll get to see its other side — four mikroBUS™ sockets for connecting click boards™. With more than 160 bite-sized clicks to pick from (and more coming out every week), anything goes.
1. What’s on board? 1 3 2 1 4 2 3 1 7-20V DC connector 6 12 MHz Crystal oscilator 2 Programming USB port 7 32.768 MHz Crystal oscilator 3 Signal LEDs 8 SPI header 4 AT91SAM3X8E MCU 9 host/device USB port 5 Arduino UNO pinout 1 mikroBUS™ socket (one of 4) 3 LED (one of 4) 2 Reset button 5 5 System specification 6 7 5 5 8 9 Page 5 power supply board dimensions weight mikroBUS™ via USB cable 73 x 73 mm 30 g (0.066 lbs) 4 sockets (5V DC) (2.87 x 2.
2. Programing Flip & click To program the Flip & click, download the latest version of the open-source Arduino IDE. The software is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Once you connect the board to a PC (using the microUSB port next to the power connector) your system will recognize it as an Arduino Due. Just compile your sketch and you’re good to go. www.arduino.
3. Code examples We made several examples to show off the potentials of Flip & click and click board™ combinations. All the code is available on MikroElektronika’s GitHub channel. Keep visiting the link, as more code will be added in the future: www.github.
4. Blue side On the blue side, Flip & click features a standard Arduino Uno pinout (with additional SPI pins) which makes it compatible with a range of Arduino shields. All the pins operate on 3.3V logic, just like with Arduino Due. The four LEDs are the same as on Arduino Due. From left to right: indicating power supply (PWR), signaling programming is in progress (TX, RX), and one connected to MCU pin 13 (L).
5. USB ports The board has two micro-USB ports. One is for programming, the other lets you connect your Flip & click to other hardware. Depending on what you are making, you can set the board to be a USB device or a host.
6. White side On the white side, Flip & click has four mikroBUS™ sockets along with four LEDs and a reset button. The silkscreen markings clearly denote which microcontroller pins are used on each socket. The pinout provides both 3.3V and 5V power supplies.
7. click boards™ Buzzer, Relays, WiFi, RFid, GSM, GPS, OLED, Speech recognition — you name it, we got it! There are more than 160 click boards™ available. Many of the chips on clicks already have their own Arduino libraries you can reuse. More and more will be coming out in the future. See them all, on: www.mikroe.
8. Schematic VCC-5V VCC-3.3V VCC-5V VCC-3.3V VCC-5V VCC-3.3V VCC-5V VCC-3.3V R12 U2_RX_LED 1K RX R13 U2_TX_LED 1K C21 100nF 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 I2C0_SDA TX INTA INTB INTC TXD3 RXD3 INTD PWM11 PWM12 VCC-3.3V Q1 ERASE FDN340P R14 10K RX JTAG_TCK JTAG_TDI JTAG_TDO JTAG_TMS CMD_ERASE USB MICRO VCC-USB FP5 MH2029-300Y 1 2 3 4 5 C22 CR3 CR4 E5 CR5 10uF 10nF VDDPLL XOUT XIN VCC-3.
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