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Re:Microduino: Arduino in your pocket, small, stackable, smart by msutherl on Monday September 23, 2013 @01:10PM (#6432407)
Built in USB (i.e. use something like the ATmega32U4) or a custom USB chip like they started doing with the Arduino.
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Re:Microduino: Arduino in your pocket, small, stackable, smart by fnordfnordfnord on Monday September 23, 2013 @04:45PM (#6434011)
I agree with you here, but it is easy to screw it up. Early Arduino UNO models had to have the USB bridge's firmware updated because someone forgot a compiler flag, which resulted in a difficult to troubleshoot bug that would effectively 'brick'[1] some boards. http://arduino.cc/en/Hacking/DFUProgramming8U2

[1] Not really bricked, but bricked to someone who is expecting an Arduino, and new to microcontrollers.

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