Arduino MEGA is made of win
and it’s rather large.
Something that has continually bugged me about the various flavors of Arduino is the number of pins that there are not 8 of. As in, 5 analog pins or 6 PWM pins or whatever. I end up adding multiplexors so I can drive 8 PWM outputs or read 8 sensors or what-have-you.
Arduino MEGA fixes all my problems, at the cost of size and a few extra $$$:
PWM: 14 pins, I’ll try not to complain about it not being 16
Analog Input: 16 pins
Thanks to all the extra I/O, I was able to ditch a specialized, $25 PWM controller and some support hardware and move my entire project from a pc board to an Arduino MEGA shield.
[tags]arduino mega[/tags]