This is a pretty cool re-make of the very popular Arduino UNO. LittleBird Electronics added a status LED to every output on the board for troubleshooting and quick prototyping. Beats having to wire up a bunch of LED’s yourself.
In this article we review the “Magpie” Arduino Uno-compatible board from Little Bird Electronics.
Introduction
Finally I’m back at the office and have a pile of things to write about. Starting with the subject of this review – the “Magpie” board from Little Bird Electronics in Australia. It seems that a new Arduino-compatible board enters the market every week, thanks to the open-source nature of the platform and the availability of rapid manufacturing. However the Magpie isn’t just any old Arduino Uno knock-off, it has something which helps it stand out from the crowd – status LEDs on every digital and analogue I/O pin. You can see them between the stacking header sockets and the silk-screen labels. For example:
and for the curious, the bottom of the Magpie:
At first glance you might think “why’d they bother doing that? I could just wire up some LEDs myself”. True…
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