[chbot] Robot Friendly Bluetooth board, and Arduino Nano V3 compatible

[Michael Field]

Hi,

I have my hands on a US$16.90 Arduino Nano 3.0.  It works just as it 
should.

Pros:
- More Analogue pins than my "Mini Pro 3.3V" (A0-A7 vs A0-A3)
- No need for a USB-RS232TTL board
- Comes with header pins - perfect for using with breadboards
- Comes with mini-B USB cable
- A blue power LED

Cons:
- removing headers would be painful if you had to.
- annoying bright blue LED.
- Yet another mini-B USB cable... you can have too many!
- 12mm longer than a Mini Pro

My port of TinyBASIC was up and running without any fuss (don't give me 
a hard time, I just wanted to see if it would work!)

TinyBasic in C V0.03.
1346 bytes free.
OK
 >5 for i = 1 to 5
 >10 PRINT "Hello"
 >15 next i
 >list
5 FOR I = 1 TO 5
10 PRINT "Hello"
15 NEXT I
OK
 >run
Hello
Hello
Hello
Hello
Hello
OK
 >


Mike

On 8/08/2011 9:15 a.m., Richard Jones wrote:
> If you enter arduino into their search engine it also comes up with 
> this Arduino Nano 3.0 compatible board: 
> http://www.dealextreme.com/p/arduino-nano-v3-0-81877 This looks a lot 
> simpler than etching PCBs.
>
> Anyone tried these products?
>
> Richard
>