Here we are at the end of Q1 2017and what have we got?

We are just finishing up design details for out Beta test devices. We expect to be sending them out for a few lucky people to play with over the next month. If you'd like to have your say on some of the features included, or be one of the testers, head on over to our patreon and cast your vote. https://www.patreon.com/metaboard

While our previous designs have focused on extensibility and modularity (and we intend to do so in the future), we are gearing up these ones for ease of use. Plug&play with as many features to help you test as possible. They look something like this:To give you a short tour, those pins at the end are the IO. Any signal coming in to one can come out the other via an internal channel. The channels are normally available on each side to allow the devices to be stacked together, but in this simplified version, we have only the programming ports on the side (sorry, no USB programming yet!). The five pins in the middle allow you to use a jumper to set the voltage of channel 9 to GND, 3v3, 5v or 12v.

At the moment we have the supply channel, a GPIO, an LED, and an ADC, as can be seen here:

We can toggle the onboard LED (which is internally connected to GND) by connecting GPIO and LED to the same IO, then toggling the GPIO:

Similarly, we can link the GPIO to the ADC and see the waveform:

Most importantly, however, is that you can plug anything in to the IO pins and use our interface to build a circuit around it! Let us know what tools you would find most useful in the Metaboard!

If you like this project, please consider making a tiny donation over at our patreon. We have more exciting projects in the works and we can't wait to bring them to you! (Plus coffee is expensive)

Thanks for joining us :)