Arduino Mega 2560

The Arduino Mega 2560 is based on the Atmel ATmega2560 processor running at 16 MHz, which provides 256 Kbytes of program memory, 8 Kbytes of RAM, and 4 Kbytes of EEPROM. I've tested uLisp with an official Arduino Mega 2560 board:

Mega.jpg

Also with a Chinese equivalent [1]:

MegaC.jpg

LEDs

The Arduino Mega 2560 has an orange LED connected to the digital pin 13 which you can flash with the following program:

(defun blink (x)
  (pinmode 13 t)
  (digitalwrite 13 x)
  (delay 1000)
  (blink (not x)))

Run it by typing:

(blink t)

Crius All in One Pro

Another interesting Arduino-compatible ATmega2560-based board is the Crius All In One Pro, intended for use as a multicopter controller. It's an ideal platform for running uLisp, and could form the basis for uLisp robot and control projects:

Crius.jpg

It fits on a board just 2" (5cm) square, and is available from many sites at about £25 or $35. I bought mine from Aliexpress [2], but it is also available on Banggood [3] and eBay.

The board includes USB, I2C, SPI, and serial interfaces, all of which are brought to connectors at the edge of the board. Most suppliers include a set of cables to allow you to connect to each interface.

It is supplied with a bootloader already installed, and you can program it via the USB port by setting the Board option to Arduino/Genuino Mega or Mega 2560 in the Arduino IDE.

The board includes several interesting sensors, including an MPU-6050 accelerometer and gyro, a HMC5883L 3-axis digital magnetometer, a MS5611-01BA01 high precision altimeter, and an SPI serial memory which could be used for data logging.

LEDs

The Crius board has red, blue, and green LEDs labelled A, B, and C connected to the digital pins 13 , 31, and 30 respectively which you can flash in sequence with the following program:

(defun blink ()
  (let ((x 0)
        (pins '(13 31 30)))
    (mapc pinmode pins '(t t t))
    (loop
     (digitalwrite (nth x pins) nil)
     (setq x (mod (1+ x) 3))
     (digitalwrite (nth x pins) t)
     (delay 1000))))

Run it by typing:

(blink)
  1. ^ Mega 2560 R3 on Banggood.
  2. ^ Crius All In One Pro v2.0 AIOP RC Multi-Copter Flight Control Board on Aliexpress.
  3. ^ Crius All In One Pro v2.0 Multi-Copter Flight Control Board on Banggood.