BrainBoard with Bluetooth Module
We call it an ‘Arduino-Compatible Swiss Army Knife'. With a motor driver, a bunch of sensors, and the guts of a full Arduino Nano integrated onboard you have the tools to build your project quickly and neatly. Or you can follow our example projects and build a heart rate monitor, a roving tank, integrate Bluetooth wireless communications, start your home automation project or create a data logger for science experiments.
Bluetooth
It's now super simple and cost effective to untether your BrainBoard projects from their wires. Add bluetooth to your project and enable datalogging remotely, remote control a robot or turn lights on and off using BrainBoard and your smart phone.
Why BrainBoard?
We designed BrainBoard from the ground up to be beginner-friendly. Who’s it for? Great for classrooms, kids, hobbyists, and experienced programmers who want to dip their toes in hardware. Well documented projects with clear and easy to understand code make it quick to pick up and see results.
Our design philosophy is to provide a range of inexpensive add-on modules that clip on top of the board to push the limits of what it can do. We wanted to bring as much tech to as many people as possible, so the difference between our approach and the usual Arduino shields is that ours are inexpensive, simple, and made specifically for BrainBoard. Add a Bluetooth module, an OLED display, 10-DOF or micro-SD card module (currently in the works, watch this space!) and let your imagination do the rest without hurting the wallet.
What's onboard:
- Based on Arduino Nano 3.0 with ATMega328 -- 100% Arduino compatible
- 32 kB code space, 2kB used by bootloader
- 2 kB SRAM
- 16 MHz clock speed
- 1 A Two-channel motor driver (drive two DC motors, four relays, or one stepper motor)
- Light dependant resistor (light sensor)
- Temperature sensor
- Hand turned potentiometer
- Two user input buttons
- Six LEDs wired in three pairs
- Piezo buzzer (the variable tone variety)
- 13 user I/O pins with 11 capable of digital I/O and 4 capable of analog input (some do both)
- USB mini connection with standard Arduino FTDI drivers for communication back to PC
Modules to Add:
- IR Remote transceiver
- Ten degrees of freedom IMU -- tri-axis compass, gyro, accelerometer + barometric pressure (altitude) sensor
- Micro-SD card data logging module
- OLED high resolution graphical and text display module
- Bluetooth wireless module