evive: an open-source embedded platform for learning, prototyping & debugging

[evivetoolkit]

Hey guys,

We've made evive, an Arduino powered all-in-one embedded platform to ease learning, prototyping and debugging. It is aimed at makers of all ages to serve a wide range of applications. It can be used by beginners to develop their making skills towards robotics and embedded systems, by hobbyists and students to build projects and experimental setups with ease, and by advanced users like researchers, professionals and educators to analyze and debug their projects.

With Arduino MEGA at its heart, it offers a novel way of interacting with your hardware using it's visual interface. The accurate current & voltage sensing capabilities let you collect and analyze data from your projects. The whole world of IoT, along with power supplies, support for sensors and actuators and a prototyping hub is available in one small portable unit. It saves your time and allows you to focus more on creativity and innovation. With so much to offer, it removes the need of dealing with too many components and saves time & money.

It is open-source and you can find the schematic pin-out diagram here:

evive is live on Indiegogo and we request the community here to give your valuable feedback to help us improve it.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/evive-world-s-best-all-in-one-embedded-toolkit/x/13974000#/

Kindly show your support for this open-source hardware product. Help us bring it out to the world 

We've made several projects with evive which can be found on our instructables profile:
http://www.instructables.com/member/evivetoolkit?show=INSTRUCTABLES

[Neganur]

And then I want to reuse a circuit part in another breadboard hack but can't since everything is integrated in a box....

[evivetoolkit]

Dear Neganur,

Thanks for your query.

Everything inside the box is connected with the Arduino Mega board, pins of which can be accessed by opening the lid. After opening, it looks like this:



Hence, you can use a section of the platform to interact with your breadboard circuit. See this for example:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Scientific-Calculator-With-Evive-arduino-Powered-E/

Let us know if you've more doubts.

[dferyance]

Could prove to very interesting, here are some of my quick thoughts.

• Arduino Mega? So 5v with level shifters? Pretty limiting and complicated. Something like the Cypress PSoC 4 would be better. Could even go PSoC 5 but that is a larger jump in price. Get programmable analog, programmable digital and a wide voltage range.
• I like the idea of having basic measurement / sensing built-in. However, does this use the microcontroller to run? To be useful, it is important to have DMM / scope features available in addition to running something on the MCU.
• For sure I like the battery. It saves having to have extra power cables everywhere. Reminds me of my old 200-in-one kit. Be sure to have current-limiting on it. I couldn't count how many times I shorted out the 200-in-one kit.

[evivetoolkit]

Thanks for your thoughts.

- We chose Arduino to start with due to its huge community and an easy to use IDE. Next versions will definitely be more powerful.
The current version supports external power inputs between 5V to 30V with over-voltage protection.
- The measurements/sensing use two 24Bit ADCs connected to the microcontroller. With this we are able to reach a least count of less than 1mV (1mA for current sensing) and an accuracy of about 3mV (3mA for current sensing).
- evive is protected against reverse polarity, over-current and over-voltages.

Hope this helps. Looking forward for more suggestions.