Thursday, May 8, 2008




This is a 3.5" x 1" ATmega644 development board with a 65x42 pixel graphics LCD (1" display), microSD card socket, crystal, caps, reset filter, AREF and AVCC filter. The board includes a white LED driver / brightness control for the LCD. Both the LCD and microSD connect to the SPI pins. The boot flash is preprogrammed with my SDBootLoader. The board is powered from 3.3VDC and the two rows of header pins are on 0.9" centers so that it can be plugged in to an experimenter strip. I'll have a little library of functions to drive the LCD available soon. The library will include functions to load images for the LCD from the microSD card, fonts, lines, contrast control, backlight brightness, etc. I did the layout in Eagle - which I'm liking more and more. I'll post photos as soon as I get one built up and have some images on the LCD. The notch on the end of the board protect the the flex of the LCD module that wraps around to the FPC connector on the PCB bottom. The two yellew pads are plated-thru slots for the LED backlight. I'm also working on a version of the same board but with a Luminary Micro LM3S811 ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor. The price for either one will be between USD$40-50 with availability in 6-8 weeks.

Enjoy,
Tom