Mini USB Host Board Arduino Compatible

[craftycoder]

Hey guys, first time poster, long time lurker. I just posted up my first Kickstarter project and it seems like this is a good place to share it. What you think?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/985890579/mini-usb-host-microcontroller-board-arduino-compat

[westfw]

Isn't a m328 cpu likely to be rather short on code space when it comes to talking "USB Host" to popular devices?  I thought that's why the existing ADK devices were all based on the MEGA (atmega2560)

[craftycoder]

That is always a concern when choosing a MCU. If you watched the video, you would have seen a large variety of projects that all work with the available space. In practice, I've yet to run into the issue. I've gotten a few KB from the limit but never reached it. The aim here is for a small and inexpensive enough board that you can leave it in projects without the bitter taste of $80 down the tubes. I can add a BGA 2560 in the same footprint but the cost goes up and it becomes a little awkward to program with the basic Arduino interface because the pin outs are not the same.

When making a project of this type you always have to make judgement calls. I am aiming at cost, size, and simplicity which brought me here.