Unboxing the Limited Edition Arduino UNO Mini – First Look and Review!

This video gives you an unboxing, first look and review of the brand new Arduino UNO Mini Limited Edition board from Arduino. Arduino are targeting the Arduino UNO Mini as a collectors item to anyone who collects microcontrollers. This board is an expensive but great alternative to the standard Arduino UNO only in a smaller package! The Arduino UNO Mino Limited Edition uses the ATmega328P microcontroller and the board features a USB-C connector. It features four LEDs on the topside of the board including a green power LED. In many ways it acts just like the standard Arduino UNO, just in a smaller package and a prettier board! It measures in at 34.20mm x 26.70mm.

The Arduino UNI Mini Limited Edition starts at 40 Euros from Arduino which is very expensive for a microcontroller but we suspect that this isn’t the targeted use case for this board, instead we think this board is for display!

The board is powered by the ATmega328P which is a 8-bit AVR RISC based processor running at 16MHz. This chip features 2KB of SRAM, 32KB Flash for your projects and 1KB EEPROM. It has three timers (one 16-bit and two 8-bit), it has 6 PWM channels, and according to Arduino it has 6 ADC inputs although the actual chip appears to be an 8 channel ADC. It has two SPI interfaces, and one I squared C interface. However, the ATmega328P does not have it’s own USB interface which means that there needs to be a USB to serial conversion process going on somewhere. In this case the ATmega16U2 microcontroller handles that. You can program this board using the Arduino IDE.

Let me know in the comments if you would like to see some projects featuring the Arduino UNO Mini!

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Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:32 Unboxing
03:23 Price
03:54 Dimensions
04:14 Features
06:12 Pinout + GPIO
06:37 Thoughts & Conclusions

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[Foxhood]

I must say it is a gorgeous little piece. They could have just slapped the gold+black onto a regular board and called it a day, but instead they recreated the uno in as tiny a footprint as possible.
So not only is it a collector's item for fans. It also acts a statement in showing off how far Arduino and technology in general has come since the Arduino boards of old.

[SwitchingPower]

The covers on the pin-headers is so that the pick-and-place machine can use a regular vacuum tip to pickup and place the headers on the board.

[sai]

"Thank you for giving us so much money these years."

[gabrielg]

It's bling pretending to be electronics, but I don't mind as long as Arduino keeps the turorials and their IDE available for free. :)

[CXensation]

It's a very neat collectors item 😊

[arnab_blue]

AWESOME REVIEW... I was going buy this just for amazing deign & for my first original Arduino... But you saved me... 😅
I'm Happy with Original Pi's with lower cost.

Yes, for many small microcontroller projects, buying lots of Original boards are total waste...

[DeLewrh]

The handwritten signatures would've been the shit, that's too bad

[MartinWolker]

These caps are just for better pick&place machine.

[Bianchi]

Nice video clip, keep it up, thank you for sharing it :)

[richardcrackel]

Very nice packaging!! Unfortunately mine arrived (off amazon) with shipping and ID labels plastered to it.

[meanflyer]

thanks for the great video and explanation. I am awaiting delivery on mine. more than anithing it is a great collectors item if you're into arduino. but in my honest opinion a nano would be a better solution for limited space projects. cheers

[HersonBagay]

The Atmega328P only has one SPI interface, unless you consider the USART in SPI mode

[LambdaJack]

Wouldn't an xmega be a more interesting choice?

[CXensation]

What would be the current consumption on this ?

[minirop]

Since I had to buy another Arduino Zero and the arduino store is the only place where I can find them, I decided to "pinch" one too at the same time. I wonder which number I will have.

[tonyflowers]

what about if you had a project that size was limited would getting this board for a project like that be worth it?

[murraymadness]

They can't be serious! A $50 Atmega328p board as a 'collectors item'. Are they going to have a NFT version too? wtf do they think we all stupid?

[celekw]

Question: Is there any chance of powering Arduino Uno mini with batteries?