ADAFRUIT METRO 328 WITHOUT HEADERS - ATMEGA328, ADAFRUIT 2466

DESCRIPTION

Adafruit sure love the ATmega328 here at Adafruit, and adafruit use them a lot for our own projects. The processor has plenty of GPIO, Analog inputs, hardware UART SPI and I2C, timers and PWM galore - just enough for most simple projects. When adafruit need to go small, we use a Pro Trinket 3V or 5V, but when size isn't as much of a concern, and a USB-serial converter is required, we reach for an Adafruit METRO.

METRO is the culmination of years of playing with AVRs: adafruit wanted to make a development board that is easy to use and is hacker friendly.

- ATmega328 brains - This popular chip has 32KB of flash (1/2 K is reserved for the bootloader), 2KB of RAM, clocked at 16MHz

- Power the METRO with 7-9V polarity protected DC or the micro USB connector to any 5V USB source. The 2.1mm DC jack has an on/off switch next to it so you can turn off your setup easily. The METRO will automagically switch between USB and DC.

- METRO has 20 GPIO pins, 6 of which are Analog in as well, and 2 of which are reserved for the USB-serial converter. There's also 6 PWMs available on 3 timers (1 x 16-bit, 2 x 8-bit). There's a hardware SPI port, hardware I2C port and hardware UART to USB.

- GPIO Logic level is 5V but by cutting and soldering closed a jumper, you can easily convert it to 3.3V logic

- USB to Serial converter, there's a hardware USB to Serial converter that can be used by any computer to listen/send data to the METRO, and can also be used to launch and update code via the bootloader

- Four indicator LEDs, on the front edge of the PCB, for easy debugging. One green power LED, two RX/TX LEDs for the UART, and a red LED connected to pin PB5

- Easy reprogramming, comes pre-loaded with the Optiboot bootloader, which is supported by avrdude and only uses 512 bytes.

- Beautiful styling by PaintYourDragon and Bruce Yan, in Adafruit Black with gold plated pads.

- Works with all Adafruit designed shields!

This version of the METRO 328 comes as a fully assembled and tested development board but without any headers attached. Adafruit do include some through-hole headers that you can solder on if you like, or you can solder wires or header directly to the breakout pads. Adafruit also include 4 rubber bumpers to keep it from slipping off your desk.

Mac & Windows People! Don't forget to grab & install the FTDI VCP drivers from FTDI to make the COM/Serial port show up right! The default drivers may not support this FTDI chip!

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Detailed specifications:

- ATmega328 microcontroller with Optiboot (UNO) Bootloader

- USB Programming and debugging via the well-supported genuine FTDI FT231X

- Input voltage: 7-9V (a 9VDC power supply is recommended)

- 5V logic with 3.3V compatible inputs, can be converted to 3.3V logic operation

- 20 Digital I/O Pins: 6 are also PWM outputs and 6 are also Analog Inputs

- 6-pin ICSP Header for reprogramming

- 32KB Flash Memory - 0.5K for bootloader, 31.5KB available after bootloading

- 16MHz Clock Speed

- Compatible with "Classic" and "R3" Shields

- Adafruit Black PCB with gold plate on pads

- 53mm x 68.5mm / 2.1" x 2.7"

- Height (w/ barrel jack): 13mm / 0.5"

- Weight: 16.5g

- Derivative of "Arduino UNO R3 Reference design" 

- Open source hardware files on github!