Well, it’s a NEW Year 2018 – hope it turns out Happy for us!.,
And, I turned a year OLDer in December, the OLD year of 2017!

Coridium has a new product – the ARMStamp; thanks to the 55 backers of Bruce’s Kickstarter Project, I being one of them.

  • disclaimer – I have been a beta tester for Bruce on and off the last 3+ years

Coridium also has a new website written with new technologies – grav, the old having been done the manual/hand way with HTML and php.
Carrying on with the New/Old theme for this blog post:
How about the ARMStamp and an Arduino shield??? Here is my rendition of the setup:: pix-top I used a MakerShed.com shield, which I think I purchased at Adafruit. I added an extra set of decoupling capacitors on the end of the shield where the pot(entiometer) is located. The pot came in handy when I was testing the proto-board. BTW-the pinouts are slightly different than the final product. You will notice the white loopy wire for the 3.3v connection on the proto.
Here is the bottom of my setup – the grey cable is for a future TFT graphic 240x320 (portrait orientated) display. I miss the old way of wirewrapping! pix-bottom For my next design I will sandwich the ARMStamp under the Arduino shield, using the outer row of pins for the signals. The AD assignment will get a little messy – but usually 4 AD are enough. We can duplicate the A/Ds between two places.

Hey! - we could add a second shield to the bottom of the ARMStamp – using the inside row of pins for the second set of signals!! Whoa!! I was originally thinking they (inside row of pins) would be BasicStamp pins – long headers so they could plug into the socket of the original BasicStamp chip.
[might have an AD shortage/conflict ]

Wouldn’t that be cool – a double Arduino – back to back !!. I know they are getting long in the tooth – but it sure makes expansion easier. It is tough to bend all those wires so you can solder them.

Bruce’s team might be able to add a ‘Sketch’ structure to his MakeItC software. Demand and resources, of course, will guide that direction – Coridium is a business. I am just a Guest Blogger.

Possibilities – I love ‘em and with all that GPIO available …….
Till next post .. stick to those resolutions!!

Olzeke

  • original Minion by FloozyWhoozy.devian.art aka. Aurthur Mercader