In digital pins row there are now two separate I2C (or TWI, according to Atmel's documentation) bus signals - SDA and SCL. keyboard instead of serial port)Īdding new pins causes some confusion. ATmega8U chip responsible for USB communication were replaced by ATmega16U (16 kB of flash memory instead of 8) - this involves only advanced users, who want to change the type of hardware, as which Arduino appears, when connected to PC (e.g.In "analog section" there are now 8 and 6 pins instead of 2 x 6. In "digital section" there are two pin header sockets: 10 and 8 pins, instead of 2 x 8. In each row of pins there is two more now.The differences between Arduino Mega 2560 R3 and R2 are: 1.0 were released, the Arduino team announced that since then Arduino and the IDE will be further developed, but the Mega R3 and IDE version 1.0 will be reference for future releases.įor an ordinary user, it doesn't matter much, but in case you want to, for example, conduct a workshop which will be periodically repeated, or you to use Arduino in your school, then basing on R3 and version 1.0 should keep everything up-to-date for a long time. Both the hardware and the software (the IDE itself as well as Arduino library) was changing in the past time. R3 - reference versionĪrduino Team announced that Arduino Mega 2560 R3 (R3 stands for Revision 3) is reference model.Īrduino is a live project, constantly evolving. Thanks to pre-loaded bootloader, you don't need additional programmer. Advanced users can use another IDE environments (toolchain avr-gcc). The board is simple to use, in accordance to Arduino project's philosophy - connect it to PC with USB cable and you are able to begin programming in a free development environment, available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems (in every of them it requires Java to work). Buying it, you're supporting the Arduino team (a part of the revenue is committed for further Arduino development). Thanks to this, Arduino can appear as different type of hardware (mass storage device, keyboard or another HID device) when connected to PC.Īrduino Mega 2560 boards sold by us are original. What's more, ATmega16U2 has its own firmware, which can be reprogrammed when necessary. What it means for the user? Additional 3.3V voltage regulator provides 150 mA of overall maximum output current (compare it to 50 mA offered by previous versions). This model is also equipped with new USB chip (so as Arduino UNO) - ATmega16U2 (instead of ATmega8U2 or FTDI chips used previously). The processor works with frequency of 16 MHz. Available memory is 256 KB of flash, 8 KB RAM and 4 KB EEPROM. Totally it has 54 digital inputs/outputs (including 14 capable of PWM operation), 16 analog inputs, 4 serial ports (UART), SPI and I2C interfaces. One could say, Arduino Mega is Arduino UNO's older brother - bigger memory, more input/output pins, so it's dedicated to more advanced applications than UNO. However, there are some differences between functions of particular pins, thus not every shield can be used with Arduino Mega. It means, the shields designed for Duemilanove will also fit to Mega board. Arduino Mega 2560 is a developer board based on ATmega2560 microcontroller.Īrduino Mega 2560 is compatible with Arduino Duemilanove/UNO footprint.
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