Cytron ARDUINO : Maker UNO

Maker UNO is an Arduino Compatible board specially designed to simplify building your projects:

• Coding & Electronics made easy with built-in:{ 12x LEDs; 1x buzzer; 1x button; }
• Troubleshooting made easy with LED indicators.

Students/Makers can skip the hassle of constructing the basic electronic circuit which is boring and time-consuming. Although it is equally important to learn about basic electronics, it can always come later after they have experienced how easy it is to create an awesome project. Start with fun and excitement. Start coding right away and see your board lights up and plays the melody with the press of a button.

For experienced makers, this is also useful to quickly test your code without having to connect any other devices.

With the conventional Arduino boards, makers also face another common problem - difficulty in troubleshooting their circuit. This is because when it doesn't work, we do not know whether the problem is due to wire connection or coding.

With Maker UNO, the problem is solved! Not only do the onboard LEDs work as outputs, they can also act as indicators, clearly showing what's happening on that pin. When the pin is used as input, you can clearly see whether the signal is received by just looking at changes on the LEDs.

Additional Features

One of the brilliant features of the official Arduino Uno is the label printed on its pin headers. It saves us a lot of time when we want to connect the I/O pins to the external circuit. So, we include a set of these label stickers for pin headers in each of the Maker UNO! (Please note that you need to peel off the stickers and stick them on your Maker UNO by yourself)

Students always get their boards mixed up. With Maker UNO, you can write your name on the board. Problem solved!

Specification

Maker UNO is fully compatible with Arduino. You can share the same library and code. We put in 12x LEDs, 1x piezo buzzer and 1x programmable button on the Maker UNO. We have removed the DC jack power input socket as most of the boards used in classes are powered using USB. We have also replaced the ATmega16u2 with CH340 to bring down the cost.

Documents

• Maker UNO User's Manual
• Maker UNO Edu Kit Getting Started Module
• Maker-UNO Schematic
• Maker-UNO Fritzing File
• Maker-UNO 3D file(IGS and STEP files)
• CH34X driver (Please ensure the Maker UNO is plug into computer USB port during driver installation)
  • Windows (V3.5 Mar2019)
  • Mac OS (V1.5 Mar2019)
  • Linux (V1.5 Mar2019) (Normally is readily installed)
  • CH34X Driver - Get the latest driver from the factory

Tutorials

• Getting Started with Maker UNO (video)
• Maker UNO Projects

Related links

• Maker UNO's Default Program
• Arduino IDE Download
• How To Program Arduino (Maker UNO) Using Atmel Studio
  • Introduction Atmel Studio 7 is the integrated development platform (IDP) for developing and debugging all AVR® and SAM microcontroller applications. The Atmel Studio 7 IDP gives you a seamless and easy-to-use environment to write, build and debug your applications written in C/C++ or assembly code.
• Program Maker UNO using Chromebook