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Arduino Mega released today

March 26, 2009 – 9:15 pm

Arduino Mega was released today. I already ordered mine from lawicel.
As stated in arduino mega page:
It has 54 digital input/output pins (of which 14 can be used as PWM outputs), 16 analog inputs, 4 UARTs (hardware serial ports), a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a [...]

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Arduino sleep mode – Waking up when receiving data on the USART

October 15, 2008 – 9:14 pm

I’ve been playing with the Arduino sleep modes and i wanted to be able to wake up from the sleep when receiving data on the serial port. Mainly, because in my project I’m using the XBee in the API mode and the tricks exposed in http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Learning/ArduinoSleepCode and http://www.libelium.com/squidbee/index.php?title=Save_power_in_SquidBee_-_sleep_mode involve putting Arduino in SLEEP_MODE_PWR_DOWN and using [...]

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