Modular Boards

John A. Zoidberg

Hey there,

I just thought of a small idea. Yes - the idea is already there, but I love to make it a bit more towards a universal modular board.

I'm thinking of building myself a little board, with the Prop and the EEPROM on a small circuit board with the headers.

And also, I could make some more little boards with a DS1307 + battery (yes, Sparkfun has them all, but no access to them), or an ADC inside there, something like those Arduino shields.

Is it a good idea to speed up prototyping? :smilewinkgrin:

Sapieha

Hi John A. Zoidberg.

Look on this thread.

3D rendering of new Mikronauts PCB's layout

We have already some modules

John A. Zoidberg wrote: »

Hey there,

I just thought of a small idea. Yes - the idea is already there, but I love to make it a bit more towards a universal modular board.

I'm thinking of building myself a little board, with the Prop and the EEPROM on a small circuit board with the headers.

And also, I could make some more little boards with a DS1307 + battery (yes, Sparkfun has them all, but no access to them), or an ADC inside there, something like those Arduino shields.

Is it a good idea to speed up prototyping? :smilewinkgrin:

John A. Zoidberg

Thanks. It gives me some inspiration certainly!

JonnyMac

Many of us have gone modular. I created the Propeller Platform for my column in Nuts & Volts magazine -- I was kind of going after the Arduino.

-- http://www.gadgetgangster.com/find-a-project/56?projectnum=168

WBA Consulting

Going modular is definitely ideal for prototyping. The two existing options I use:

1. Propeller Proto Board with Blank Proto board on top.
2. Propeller Platform Board (Jon's TH version and the new all SMT USB version) with add-ons

I am looking into some items by Mikronauts and the SpinStudio modules as they can be used with other platforms.

I also use some of Propmodule's PropMod 1x1 for smaller projects like my current Plunge Logger. I am getting ready to start mass production on my M44D40+ module that will allow some easy prototyping as well.

Cluso99

RamBlade is a modular board - all smt, prop, eeprom, 512KB sram and microSD. Unfortunately for speed it does not use the usual serial I/O pins of P30/31 which means that downloading not so easy.
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?t=116893&highlight=ramblade