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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : Geoff covers the DuinoMite on his site
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CircuitGizmos Guru  Joined: 08/09/2011 Location: United StatesPosts: 1425 |
I'll be producing a Maximite design in the spirit of the original design - compatible with the firmware written by Geoff. There is still room for the Maximite even if there is a flood of partially-compatible clones. It will sell for less than the SM1. A unique configuration for a Maximite. Not ready to introduce it yet, though. - - - - I thought that one benefit of open source was that contributions could be made _back_ to the original source to improve the project. Has that happened here? Micromites and Maximites! - Beginning Maximite |
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elproducts Senior Member  Joined: 19/06/2011 Location: United StatesPosts: 282 |
I've also been having some fun working with a friend to create a Maximite compatible Arduino style module we call the Maximino. The pinout is slightly different than the proposed Arduino compatible layout that I posted on the forum some time ago. The reason we moved a few pins around was to match the I2C and UART pins of the Arduino while still maintaining complete pinout compatibility with Maximite. I2C, SPI and UART were new features in MMBASIC that didn't exist when I did the original layout. SPI is more flexible in MMBASIC so we didn't have to move pins for that. We have a lot of CHIPINO/Arduino shields around we'd like to use with Maximite code so that drove us to this. It's been a fun project so far. These stack on each other to make a complete Maximite. 
www.elproducts.com |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3800 |
That should be popular with those wanting more MM compatibility! Any estimates on timescale & cost? John |
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| elproducts Senior Member Joined: 19/06/2011 Location: United StatesPosts: 282 |
Haven't really thought about that. We're just making a few prototypes to play with right now. Thanks to Don I had an early SM1 and couple of Donduino Cross boards to play with and we bought a second SM1 so we each had a setup. The idea was to just wait until the Duinomite became available. Then we built a couple of the Geoff's Maximite Mini's while we waited. Then all the pinout stuff showed up and my original Maximite to Arduino layout was changed so we kept talking about wanting to maintain the Maximite pinout and the changes that we would make to my Arduino layout for the I2C and UART so that's what got it started. Sometimes I wonder if the mother of invention is actually a couple of cold beers between friends. www.elproducts.com |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3800 |
That's the mother of all headaches! |
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donmck Guru Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1313 |
A sense of humour! Is that still allowed? 
Cheers Don... https://www.dontronics.com |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3800 |
runs --> to check board guidelines :) |
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