Under our new ownership, Hackaday is now able to bring you the latest and the greatest Open Hardware projects designed completely in house. For our first such experimentation in our own custom hardware, we decided to build what we love: an Arduino-compatable development board that blinks a LED.
However, following a cursory review of existing development boards, we were somewhat dejected; we realized everything that could be done with an Arduino board had already been done. After some serious drin^H^H^H^Hthinking, the brains behind Hackaday came up with an entirely new paradigm for what development boards can do.
Really, how sweet is that? I mean just look at this thing:
Actually, it's pretty sucky as a bottle opener. We ended up breaking the first one we tested. Nevertheless, in the spirit of open hardware, we're giving out our files and hoping some of you can improve on it. Maybe you want to remove the pin headers and replace them with LEDs? Maybe you want to make the bottle opener actually work. That's all fine with us. just drop us a note on our tip line if you build your own.
Oh, the back silk screen is pretty sweet:
So there you go. Schematic and BOM are in the PDF, if you get a board made (I'm sharing it at OSH Park. It's about $30 for three boards) you most likely already have the components to make this lying around in your parts bin. Gerbers are up as well, do with them as you please.
Rock on.
PS: This is totally not an Arduino (Hi Massimo! Like your HaD t-shirt?) and anyone calling it that will face the fury of a hundred goose-sized geese.