Affordable Arduino Compatible Board Makes DIY Projects More Effective for Users

Seeeduino V4.2 has been reduced from $19.95 to $6.90 on seeedstudio.com, becoming one of the lowest priced Arduino compatible boards on the market.

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Jul 24, 2017, 07:54 ET

SHENZHEN, China, July 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Seeed Studio's Seeeduino V4.2 now only $6.90, is an Arduino compatible board that hopes to allow people to buy a new unit for each of their DIY projects. Rather than deconstructing projects when a new one begins, Seeed is hoping to enable those projects to stay around to help inspire both the creator and others who can see and interact with said project.

The price drop is roughly 65%. Seeed achieved this by improving our supply chain management techniques and capability, improving our agile manufacturing techniques, and making more efficient use of our factory machinery. The improvement however is not done – the company will be continuing to improve their efficiency so that all future product costs can be lowered.

Seeeduino V4.2 is based the ATmega328P and is compatible with the Arduino UNO bootloader. The board comes with an additional set of through-hole pads for all pins. These pins are aligned to the standard 0.1" grid. This makes it easy to solder additional pin-headers to plug into breadboard or create your own attachment/shield with 0.1" dot-matrix general purpose PCBs.

Users can program and power the board via a micro-USB cable. Alternatively, one can power the board via a DC Jack input (7 to 15V DC). There is a switch to choose the system's supply voltage either 3.3V or 5V, which is very useful if users want to set the system to 3.3V to interact with low voltage sensors.

Finally, the three on-board Grove sensors allow a user to plug in Grove sensors with no additional hardware – making prototyping a breeze. With SeeduinoV4.2 and some Grove sensors, hundreds of projects can be done.

"Seeed cannot thrive without the open source hardware community. The decision to lower our price as much as possible is to give back to our community members and strengthen them. We strongly believed that this new price will greatly benefit our customers," - Eddy Hu, Product Manager of Seeed Studio.

The $6.90 Seeeduino V4.2 is now available on the Seeed Bazaar. With Seeed users can customize their own 'duino board in a cost effective manner. Seeed has a strong and reliable supply chain ability and strong agile manufacturing capability. The company's Open Parts Library Support offers customization of 'duino boards in Seeed Fusion with only $25 in set up fees. The set up fee is the same no matter if the order is 1 board, or 1,000. For orders over 1,000 units our Seeed Propagate service is available for customized requests.

About Seeed Studio

Seeed Studio is a hardware prototyping platform. We provide more than 180 sensors and actuators, and many development platforms, to enable quick and effective prototyping. With a robust supply chain, an agile manufacturing center, and a reliable engineering team we support small batch manufacturing runs from 1 to 1,000 units. Seeed also acts as a distribution channel, allowing potential customers global access to products.

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