Trinket may be small, but do not be fooled by its size! Its a tiny microcontroller board, built around the Atmel ATtiny85, a little chip with a lot of power. We wanted to design a microcontroller board that was small enough to fit into any project, and low cost enough to use without hesitation. Perfect for when you dont want to give up your expensive dev-board and you arent willing to take apart the project you worked so hard to design. Its our lowest-cost arduino-IDE programmable board! The Attiny85 is a fun processor because despite being so small, it has 8K of flash, and 5 I/O pins, including analog inputs and PWM analog outputs. We designed a USB bootloader so you can plug it into any computer and reprogram it over a USB port just like an Arduino. In fact we even made some simple modifications to the Arduino IDE so that it works like a mini-Arduino board. You cant stack a big shield on it but for many small & simple projects the Trinket will be your go-to platform. This is the 5V Trinket. There are two versions of the Trinket. One is 3V and one is 5V. Both work the same, but have different operating logic voltages. Use the 3V one to interface with sensors and devices that need 3V logic, or when you want to power it off of a LiPo battery. The 3V version should only run at 8 MHz. Use the 5V one for sensors and components that can use or require 5V logic. The 5V version can run at 8 MHz or at 16MHz by setting the software-set clock frequency. Even though you can program Trinket using the Arduino IDE, its not a fully 100% Arduino-compatible. There are some things you trade off for such a small and low cost microcontroller! Trinket does not have a Serial port connection for debugging so the serial port monitor will not be able to send/receive data Some computers USB v3 ports dont recognize the Trinkets bootloader. Simply use a USB v2 port or a USB hub in between
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