Arduino Standalone

2013-10-16

NOTE: This post was moved over from WumpusUAV.com. The Indiegogo campaign was not successful, so I’m copying some key posts from there to over here and shutting the site down.

To keep size and weight down, the WumpusUAV will need a customized Arduino PCB with some of the sensors and connectors onboard. It’s therefore useful to know how to work the Arduino in a standalone circuit, rather than relying on the retail boards.

The Arduino circuit is a simple one, needing a +5V voltage regulator, a crystal, an ATMega328, and a few capacitors. A schematic can be found at:

http://arduino.cc/en/Main/StandaloneAssembly

The LED and reset switch are not strictly necessary. Connecting the RESET pin to +5V will work fine.

I hit some snafus with transferring the Arduino bootloader on Linux. I will document the solutions in a later post.