Building an Arduino out of Paper

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April 4th, 2014 18

Following in the footsteps of the original Paperduino—and the Paperduino Leonardo—is the Paperduino Tiny. It’s a cheap Arduino-compatible board based around the ATtiny85 micro-controller, and you can probably put it together for around US$4. The difference? As you might have guessed from the name, it’s made of paper.

Paperduino Tiny (Front)

Paperduino Tiny (Rear)

More information can be found on the Paperduino Wiki—including step-by-step instructions, and a full parts list.

Specifications

Support for the Arduino IDE 1.0+ (OSX/Win/Linux)
Power via USB or External Source – 5V
Built-in USB (and serial debugging)
6 I/O Pins (2 are used for USB only if your program actively communicates over USB, otherwise you can use all 6 even if you are programming via USB)
8k Flash Memory (about 6k after bootloader)
I2C and SPI (vis USI)
PWM on 3 pins (more possible with Software PWM)
ADC on 4 pins
Power LED and Test/Status LED (on Pin1)

(via Instructables)

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Building an Arduino out of Paper

By Alasdair Allan