Seeduino boards

I bought few of these about a month back. They are much lighter than the normal Arduino board due to the use of the small USB 2.0 header and surface mount chips. I'll weight both and post, but if you are looking to build a mikroquad, or anything where weight is an issue and you don't happen to be using the ArduPilot (which is already really optimized for size!) this is a good alternative. Oh, did I mention it adds two ADC pins to the normal arduino configuration? Really nice if you want to add a barometric altimeter to your mikroquad! Now I just need to find a shield that supports the extra pins.

http://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/?p=44

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Comment by Aristotle on January 1, 2009 at 9:13pm
The seedouino is nice, but if you are really looking to go small/light, the arduino mini pro is the way to go.

http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8991

Moderator Comment by Chris Anderson on January 1, 2009 at 10:03pm
The Arduino Nano is much more functional (built-in FTDI) and not much bigger. It's a lovely board, and my current breadboard fave.
Comment by Venom57 on January 2, 2009 at 5:51am
The mikroquad design uses the protoshield to mount the gyro/accel board, that's why I'm interesting in using it. I'd be interesting in getting the weight of all 4 boards and putting them up here for folks. I don't know why the dimensions don't include this, but we can just post it here.
Comment by Venom57 on January 2, 2009 at 1:04pm
Seeduino - 17.5 gr , approx 5/8oz

Arduino Diecimila - 30g, approx 1oz

Basic Stamp BS2 - 1gr

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