quote:Trinket may be small, but do not be fooled by its size! It's a tiny microcontroller board, built around the Atmel ATtiny85, a little chip with a lot of power. We wanted to design a microcontroller board that was small enough to fit into any project, and low cost enough to use without hesitation. Perfect for when you don't want to give up your expensive dev-board and you aren't willing to take apart the project you worked so hard to design. It's our lowest-cost arduino-IDE programmable board!
The Attiny85 is a fun processor because despite being so small, it has 8K of flash, and 5 I/O pins, including analog inputs and PWM 'analog' outputs. We designed a USB bootloader so you can plug it into any computer and reprogram it over a USB port just like an Arduino. In fact we even made some simple modifications to the Arduino IDE so that it works like a mini-Arduino board. You can't stack a big shield on it but for many small & simple projects the Trinket will be your go-to platform.
The price, I read was around 8 to 10 bucks. -- Is a person a failure for doing nothing? Or is he a failure for trying, and not succeeding at what he is attempting to do? What did you fail at today?.
Just got 3 of these, 5V flavor. Holy hats!! For $8, its a lot of bang.
Also picked up a couple adafruit NeoPixel rings. Quite fun.
Heads up tho, altho you can add libraries to write to the Trinket with the Arduino IDE, (or you can use AVRDude from the command line) and the trinket will run most arduino sketches (with appropriate pin number reassignments, as theres only 5 GPIO pins on the trinket) It is not, in fact an Arduino product. Its an ATmel AVR with a custom bootloader, and a nice breakout package with proper discrete components to make it easy to work with.
I'll see if I can get a video up, with my "Hello World" sketch for this Trinket and NeoPixel ring.. Its pretty svelte
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