Noduino

The goal of this project is to provide a smart , small and cheap board for actuators / sensors / in automation and robotic context  :

• Smart , using CAN network and industrial quality software , to create a multi agent/client network. see CANopen for software.
• cheap and small : Like Arduino mini pro , Lilypad Arduino ... we don't need the electronic part to program/debug in each node so we can make a minimalist board ( breakout , head board ). Small units could be easily integrate in robotic_arm , little robot like swarmbot , sensors projects like CARACA... more on robotic

relative commercial products :

• http://www.candip.com/candip-m162.htm ATMega162 + CAN controller SJA1000
• http://www.grifo.com/CAN/uk_gm1.htm Atmel T89C51CC01

Atmel AVR ( see CAN_AVR ) or others products if AVR are not suitable for our constraints. Good alternative could be AT89x microcontrollers based on the 8051 architecture, industrial standard.