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Our finely-wired friends at Solarbotics have released their latest Arduino kit, the Ardweeny, “the smallest Arduino you can build yourself with through-hole components.” I love the backpack PCB concept which puts the support electronics for the ATmega328 chip on a board that stacks on top of the chip and is soldered to the chip’s pins. The Ardweeny is a Solarbotics riff on Kimio Kosaka’s One-Chip-Arduino.

Solarbotics Ardweeny

BY Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn is a freelancer writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture, including the first book about the web (Mosaic Quick Tour) and the Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots. He is currently working on a best-of collection of his writing, called Borg Like Me.

2 Responses to Solarbotics Ardweeny

  1. Does the ‘weeny have the same functionality as the nano, but without on board USB?
    Thanks a lot,
    G33K

  2. David E. Hayman on said:

    You program it as if it were an UNO, I just ordered 3. https://solarbotics.com/product/kardw/

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