Building Open Source Hardware
Monday, May 26th, 2008
Yesterday, the Quadcopter group of the Beijing LUG met at the Exoweb office to assemble the pieces of the boarduino microcontrollers. We had lots of fun, and I learned a great deal about hardware, soldering, resistors, LED’s, analog, and digital pins, as well as microchips. Although the Quadcopter group’s final goal is to build a quadcopter, the microcontrolles we built yesterday were rather an educational experiment in which we tried to understand the internals of the boarduino.
The boarduino is an Open Source arduino clone which can run the same software as the arduino. Unfortunately, we didn’t succeed in loading the bootloader to the chip yesterday, so we will need to wait for next time to start programming.