{"id":3920,"date":"2016-03-28T11:39:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T15:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2016-03-28T11:39:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T15:39:04","slug":"dirt-cheap-arduino-clones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=3920","title":{"rendered":"Dirt Cheap Arduino Clones"},"content":{"rendered":"

While reading an article on making electronic “candles” for a few bucks out of a USB power stick and some LEDs, I came across aliexpress.com.<\/p>\n

Now, I’m used to getting cheap parts from China. The four-dollar knockoff PING)) ultrasonic range finders usually work well enough — and it’s always nice to be able to get discrete components for basically free.<\/p>\n

But Arduino clone boards for $2.65<\/a>\u00a0just shouldn’t be possible<\/em>, right??<\/p>\n

Well, they are! Free shipping from China, and all. I just picked up five of them from AliExpress — and the first two work well, once I fiddled around with the USB driver a bit. I haven’t tested all of the functionality, but they did pass the Blink sketch test at two different timings, so there’s a real microcontroller on there. I was skeptical about posting about these things (since China does kind of have a reputation<\/a>) — but they actually seem like the real deal.<\/p>\n

\"Uno_clone\"<\/a>

An Arduino Uno clone for under three bucks shipped — and it can actually be programmed and everything!<\/p><\/div>\n

Come get ’em! (Note: I’m not affiliated with the site — just amazed.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Working Arduino Uno clones for $2.65 shipped. That is all. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[267,218,210,394,225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arduino","category-currentevents","category-digital","category-resources","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}