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Dale is designing the Nano Atom development board and USB programming cable. Wait! Nano Atom? Vas ist?! This is a $10 chip in three versions: 18, 28 and 40 pins. This will go heads-on with the PICAxe. Unless the PICAxe people come out with a BASIC as powerful as the Atom's, they're in for some real competition! I don't think so! Sure hope they're 18Fs!!

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And they have officially announced the Nano in the main page. Sorta. They have them in the products pages, with prices. But no details?!

I saw a PDF about the development board for these this weekend. It is going for $59.95. Not bad. It has many features:
1. Three MPU sockets, 18 pin, 28 pin, and 40 pin.
2. Several peripherals: 3 button switches, 2 user LEDs, one pot for exercising the ADC, a small speaker.
3. A USB port (YES!) for serial communications and programming. Confusion: the products page mentions a "programmer" for $16.95. This is probably the USB cable. We'll see...
4. A connector to all I/O signals (P0 - P33, not a typo!), Vcc and ground.
5. Another connector for the peripherals.
6. Some servo motor control ports.
7. Onboard power regulation. Input can be a 2.1mm power jack for DC or AC adapters, or a two pin connector to plug in a 9V battery.
8. A small breadboard for prototyping.
9. An LCD port, has two power pins for backlight LED, and a contrast control.

The Nanos use an internal clock, so no crystal or resonator is needed, and another I/O pin is made available!
I haven't heard what the compiler is like.

I guess we can expect a Nano section here on the forums real soon.
kenjj

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