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+KaBoard
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+What is kaboard ?
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+Kaboard is a development board for Atmega8 or Atmega328 microcontrollers.
+It was designed for small one of projects or prototypes.
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+It's main features are :
+ * Onboard LM1117 voltage regulator providing 5v with 800mA
+ * All mcu pins broken out on pin headers
+ * Vcc and GND pins near every mcu pin, usefull for supplying power to peripherials or for pullups or pulldowns
+ * ft232rl serial to USB konverter
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+The components on the board were selected mostly, because they are cheap and easily obtianable at my local distributor.
+One exception is the ft232rl.
+Many fellow hackers told me, that an Atmega with integrated USB would be cheaper and could be used for more then just RS232 over USB.
+I decided to stick with the ft232rl for 2 reasons :
+ * It's easy to use a serial bootloader like optiboot, that doesn't eat up much flash, for programming. 
+   There is even the possibility to use the a pin of the ft232 to reset the mcu, 
+   so even with a crashed programm you can switch to the bootlaoder, without pressing buttons on the board.
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+ * Whenever I used usb so far I needed a simple way to exchange a few bytes between a mcu and a computer.
+   Emulated RS232 is usually sufficiant for this. 
+   I've allready looked into the LUFA USB stack and I've played with usb on the stellaris launchpad.
+   Afterall I've come to the conclusion, that an extra chip like the ft232 provides a more selfcontained
+   and also easier to use implementation for RS232 over usb.
+   Also I learned the hard way with my steallaris launchpad, that a usb can be a real pain in the ass when it comes to debugging it.
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+What the !/%§)"" does KaBoard mean ?
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+The name is actually inteded to be pun for german readers.
+"Kaputt" is german for broken (or as dict.leo.org told me for kaput).
+In the palatinate dialect this word pronouced rather "Kabutt" or even "Kabudd", 
+which sound similar to KaBoard. 
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+Licenses
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+Anything in the folder libs/smisitoto_eu/ is taken from http://smisioto.no-ip.org/elettronica/kicad/kicad-en.htm
+The files are made avaible under the Creative Commons license rev2.5 Attribution-ShareAlike. (see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/)
+Also I'd like to thank Walter for his footprints and 3d models here, they've been of great help in my hobby projects.
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+The scale.pl script (libs/scale.pl) which was used to create the Kicadfiles for the KaBoard logo, can be found in this zip-archive:http://oshwlogo.com/logos/OSHW_logo_KiCad_scalable.zip
+All credits for this nice little script go to Robert Spitzenpfeil http://blog.spitzenpfeil.org/wordpress/
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+The anything else in the project folder, like the board layout, the schmeatics and the KaBoard logo, are published under Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
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