Imagine the possibilities of having the full power of an Arduino Uno in a size less than a quarter!

The wildly successful TinyDuino Kickstarter project is now available for general purchase.

Kit Overview

This kit has the bare essentials to get going with the TinyDuino! This kit includes the TinyDuino Processor Board w/ battery holder, the TinyShield USB & ICP Board, one TinyShield Proto 1 board, and a 3 board mounting kit (Screws, nuts and standoffs) and basic instructions on how to get going.

TinyDuino Overview

• Arduino and LilyPad Compatible
• Expandable with Stackable TinyShield Boards, USB, WiFi, Motor Control, GPS, accelerometers
• Optional Battery holder (CR1612-CR1632)
• 0.1" spaced solder holes for external power source
• Robust Gold Finish - makes soldering easy and is non-corrosive
• Ultra compact size and weight (smaller than a US Quarter!), 20x20mm
• Atmel ATmega328P Microcontroller (same as on the Arduino Uno)
• 20 I/Os (14 Digital, 6 Analog / Digital I/O) - All the signals on the Arduino Shield connectors are supported!
• Arduino Bootloader preprogrammed (uses approx 0.5 KBytes of Flash Memory)

Use Cases

We love the Arduino and the Arduino LilyPad - these are the best boards out there for developing quick projects and are very easy to use - even for people with little or no experience in electronics. But we kept running into projects where they were just too big or expensive, and we heard this complaint from other Arduino users in our local Hackerspace (SYN/HAK in Akron).

We looked at all the other small Arduino boards out there - but they all had drawbacks. Most were based on smaller, less powerful processors, and all lacked one of the best things about the Arduino platform - expandability through the use of shields.

So we set out to build a tiny platform that had all the power of the Arduino, yet still had easy support for expansion via shields and a lower price than a full Arduino board.

The result is the TinyDuino - a completely Arduino compatible platform smaller than the size of a quarter, yet with all the power and functionality of the Arduino Uno board - including Shield Support!