INTRODUCTION to Arduino Mini
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INTRODUCTION to Arduino Mini

 

Hi folks, we hope all is well. To give you a dose of valuable information, we are here to introduce you to a new development board of Arduino family i.e. Arduino MINI. So far we know that the development of these boards helps us in development of simple as well as complex projects depending upon the user of board. Obviously to get an insight about these boards’ beginners will try to develop some simple projects and if they don’t have sound knowledge of programming then they will use preloaded programs of Arduino to turn their idea into some physically re presentable form. On the other hand experts will try to facilitate people by doing advance projects related to their field like scientific research and much more. In short these development boards are preferred on other boards as Arduino boards are inexpensive, easy hardware and software combination and simplicity. So let’s get started with the details of Arduino MINI.Arduino mini introduction

INTRODUCTION to Arduino Mini

KEY FEATURES OF ARDUINO MINI:

 

 

SPECIFICATIONS of Arduino Mini

Specifications of this board in a glance are:

PIN DESCRIPTION of Arduino MINIArduino mini pinout

 

 

 

DIFFERENCE OF ARDUINO MINIFROM OTHER ARDUINO BOARDS

 

 

All boards of Arduino family operate at 5 V but this board can be powered by using 3.3 V supplies i.e. we can say that we only need one voltage regulator either for 3.3 V or 5 V which is based on version of board. So unlike Arduino UNO that has 2 voltage regulator i.e. one for 3.3 V supply and one for 5 V supply we need only one voltage regulator in Arduino mini. If we have some modules that work with 5 V only then in order to use them with our Arduino MINI we have to do level shifting otherwise we will damage our board.

 

 

Speed at which our 3.3 V MINI board runs, is another major difference from other boards. To guarantee the safety of our microcontroller used in this board we have to put a slower resonator as compared to other boards of Arduino. But you don’t have to worry about it as this board still performs fast operations and is capable of doing all projects which other boards especially Arduino UNO can perform.

 

 

The last difference which we are going to discuss is the deficiency of USB port in this Arduino board i.e. lack of USB to serial convertor. This port was excluded in order to make our board size compact. So lacking of this port can be somehow compensated by using FTDI Basic Breakout. If KB33 version of Arduino MINI board is used then we need this FTDI breakout circuit otherwise for KB50 version there is no need of this FTDI breakout circuit as this version comes up with USB support.

PROGRAMMING OF ARDUINO MINI

 

 

 

SHIELD COMPATIBILITY OF ARDUINO MINI

Unlike other boards of Arduino, this board is not compatible with any shields used with other boards of Arduino. One approach of connecting shields with this board is to hard wire MINI with any Arduino shield.

PROJECTS WITH ARDUINO MINI

Arduino MINI is mostly used in those projects where our space requirement and board size is of great concern. Some of the projects in which Arduino MINI is used are listed below

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