Arduino LP Kickstarter Board Featured in Raspberry Pi Geek Magazine
Our latest Kickstarter (two days left – over 300% funded) has been featured in an upcoming article in Raspberry Pi Geek Magazine. Here are the first two pages:
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Features
- – Really Low Power Usage (for Solar applications!)
- – Grove Connector Compatibility for IOT Prototyping
- – ATmega328P Processor
- – Arduino Pro Mini Compatible Pinout
- – Under 1mA sleep current
- – DS3231 Real Time Clock Included
- – 3.3V – 5V
- – Arduino IDE Compatible
- – Thousands of drivers available
- – Compatible with Hundreds of Grove Sensors
And this is why we are building the Grove Pro Mini LP.
We redesigned the Arduino Pro Mini LP board to be very low power. We removed the regulating power supply, modified the circuit to run the processor at 8MHz and provided 3.3V and 5V compatibility. Whew! And the engineering prototypes work! We have about another week of testing and we should be able to release to production. That means we will should ship this Kickstarter on time!
Go Solar!
To go solar you need a low power processor unless you want BIG Solar Panels. We are providing in the rewards two inexpensive sizes of Solar Panels and if you want to go bigger, there are the excellent panels from our buddies at Voltaic Systems.
Our WXLink Radio Application
One of the inspirations for this project was the previous kickstarter we did, “The Weather Board for the Raspberry Pi”. One of the devices that the Weather Board connects to is the SwitchDoc Labs WeatherRack wind and rain sensor.
The issue is sometimes you don’t want to run a wire all the way from the Weather Station to the wind and rain sensor. Like all the time. So, using the Mini Pro LP, we build a solar powered WeatherRack reader and then we use a transmitter to send it back to the station inside the lab. Did it on an average power of less than 5mA which made solar power easy to add. No power. No wires. More on this project in the next few weeks. Here is the complete project on a walkabout near the Spokane river. 433 meter (1,473 feet) range. Amazing for a little solar powered device!