Simple ATMEL 328P chip Arduino

I picked up a couple on items at the TRW swap meet this weekend to help in the Micro controller area. I will need several Arduinos to do the Tiny Packet Network testing. Even as cheap as Arduino UNOs are they could always be cheaper when you need several. Tim Larsen has a booth at TRW and sells many Arduino components including a bare bones Arduino kit for $8 HERE. The $8 kits get you the ATMEL 328P chip pre-loaded with the Arduino boot-loader, a 16 Mhz crystal and the couple of caps. You still need a way to load your code. If you want to program it easily, you will need a USB FTDI adapter which you can attach for programming and then you remove it afterwards.

I wired this up on a proto-board and was able to get the standard "Blink" running. I hope to make a simple PCB for this design soon.