Seeeduino Film
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Introduction
Seeeduino Film is an Arduino compatible development platform for space-sensitive projects. It’s flexible, super slim, with built-in Li-Po charger, suitable to build wearable applications. Film and other extension FRAMEs could be simply connected via the 20p universal bus like a chain, native 2.54mm pitch pins also enables quick prototyping.
Model:ARD129D2P
Features
- Arduino compatible
- Flexible
- Ultra small/slim form factor
- Transform by cutting and chaining
- Full functional Atmega168
- 0.1” pitch pad breakout
- 20pin daisy-chain flex bus
- UartSBee programming compatible
- Built-in charger circuit
- Reinforced to increase endurance
Application Ideas
- Mobile USB Host power
- Energy harvester
- Sport equipments
- Robotics
- Navigation
- Other off the grid projects
Cautions
Film is super thin and slim, it is easily damaged, take care when you setup.
Key Specification
| Microprocessor | Atmega168 |
| Indicators | LED on digital pin8(Port B 0) |
| Charge voltage | 4.5V~6V |
| Work voltage | 3.3V |
| IO counts | 19(15 IO on chain connector) |
| IO level | 3.3V (5V compatible) |
| IO Connectivity | 20p FPC connector, 0.1” pin header |
| ADC input | 6(2 ADC on chain connector) |
| Program interface | Serial/ISP |
| Communication Protocol | Serial/I2C/SPI |
| Frequency | 8MHz |
| Outline Dimension | 77.5mm*20.3mm*1.57(3.2 w/ battery connector)mm |
Electrical Characteristics
| Specification | Min | Norm | Max |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input Voltage | 3VDC | 3.3VDC | 3.6VDC |
| Idle Current | - | 5.2mA | - |
| Power-down Current | 1µA | 2µA | 5µA |
Pin definition and Rating
Seeeduino FILM has three FRAMEs: power, mainboard, and breakout. They are connected by flex 20pin FPC bus, which can be bended to fit into various spaces, or cut and reformed easily.
Power Frame
Power FRAME contains a handy power management circuit for Li-Po battery charging and regulation.
Charging
The management IC will handle the charging progress with max 280mA current, and keep 3.7v battery working properly. It drains power via CHG jack, most 4.5 ~ 6Vdc source like solar panel, wireless charger, power adapter and etc could be used.
Power Rails
Battery output is regulated to 3.3Vdc (max 150mA) for power rail and flex bus. Battery is a must even plugged power supply to CHG connector.
In simpler usage, applying 3.3Vdc directly to power rail could skip the power management circuit and power up the system too. Please remove battery to avoid damage when used this way.
Sleeping Beauty
A sleep button is included instead of power switch. The button is connected to external interrupt (PD2), by including corresponding code in firmware, the system could go to either power down mode (<5uA) or idle mode(<0.8mA). To wake up it: 1) press sleep button again or 2) trigger any external interrupt OR 3) timer (idle mode). Sleep button could be reused for other purpose by changing software.
Power Consumption
When working at 3.3v 8Mhz by default, the minimal system power consumption is about 3mA. When working in power down mode, consumption could be minimal 1.2uA (!).
Mainboard Frame
Mainboard FRAME carries an Arduino compatible AVR MCU Atmega168-10MU. It runs either at default 8Mhz with internal crystal or higher with external crystal (reserved). It includes 2.54 grid pad for prototyping and easier extension. You may even nail them into breadboard by a pin header for early development.
INTERFACE: Mainboard includes 4 Analog/Digital port with 1 Aref and I2C, Programming port to provide core functions for extremely compact application. Further pins are still extensibe via Flex Bus.
4 Analog port (A0-A3) with Aref (Analog reference) pads are placed as close to MCU as possible to avoid interference. They can be used to control or input as digital port too. The second row of 4 pads are for 3.3v and 5v I2C buses, please note other I2C devices should be able to read 3.3v as high. The easiest way to program FILM is to use UartSB which is direct plug. Other USB to serial convertor will do the job well, just be ware on the pad sequence.
INDICATOR LED: Mainboard has a programmable LED wired to Digital 8 pin. Maybe wire the battery pin to the AD port? The LED could then tell the battery level. The last usage might be shut down to save some mA,.
EXTERNAL CRYSTAL: Reserved for Asynchronous Timer/Counter2. If the Internal Calibrated RC Oscillator is used as FILM clock source, PB7..6 is used as TOSC2..1 input for the Asynchronous Timer/Counter2. Set AS2 bit in ASSR to enable this.
Breakout Frame
Breakout FRAME enables expansion and prototyping of FILM. It completely breakout 20pin flex bus to 2.54mm pin header pads. The pads are grouped by 1) I2C port w/interrupt pin, 2) ISP port 3) Digital Port 4) Serial port and an extra GND for random usage. The end of breakout FRAME is a ready for expansion; just insert it into Flex Bus Connectors on other FRAMEs to extend.
Shapes and 20pin FPC Bus
Seeeduino FILMs and FRAMEs are sharing the same shape, consisted of 3 FRAMEs on a whole FPC. Same shape makes manufacturing and usage easier. They are designed to be cut or re-grouped, you are the tailor.
Seeeduino FILM and its extension FRAMEs use unified 20pin FPC bus linked in daisy-chain. You may easily cascade multiple FRAMEs per requirement. The connection could be bent easily to fit into various spaces. Any 0.5mm pitch FPC 0.3mm thick connection ribbon could be used to extend the connection further.
Flex Bus Pin Definition
Usage
1. Prototype
Lay the FILM on a breadboard; nail it with pin headers to start prototyping.
2. Transform
Cut off unnecessary FRAMEs and attach-on extension FRAMEs, battery, or customized circuits.
3. Seal
Fold down carefully to the desired dimension and bring it on!
Support
Seeeduino Film is 100% open source; you are welcomed to re-use our design for free. Please refer to our product page for more info including accessories, source files, user project, support and etc.
Here is the seeeduinofilm.zip. If you have questions or other better design ideas, you can go to our forum or wish to discuss.
Resources
How to buy
Click here to buy Seeeduino Film ,or other products you like.
See Also
Licensing
This documentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 Source code and libraries are licensed under GPL/LGPL, see source code files for details.
External Links
Links to external webpages which provide more application ideas, documents/datasheet or software libraries
