Arduino Mega ADK

The Arduino Mega ADK has the same features as the Arduino Mega board but it is
specially designed to work with Android
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 Overview
 Technical Specs
 Documentation

Overview
5V

 
8-bit

 
16 MHz

 
USB Host

 
AVR
 The Arduino MEGA ADK is a microcontroller board based on the
ATmega2560. It has a USB host interface to connect with
Android based phones, based on the MAX3421e IC. It has 54
digital input/output pins (of which 15 can be used as PWM
outputs), 16 analog inputs, 4 UARTs (hardware serial ports), a
16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an
ICSP header, and a reset button.
The MEGA ADK is based on the Mega 2560.
Similar to the Mega 2560 and Uno, it features
an ATmega8U2 programmed as a USB-to-serial converter.
Revision 2 of the Mega ADK board has a resistor pulling the 8U2
HWB line to ground, making it easier to put into DFU mode.
Revision 3 of the board has the following new features:

  1.0 pinout: added SDA and SCL pins that are near to the AREF pin and
two other new pins placed near to the RESET pin, the IOREF that allow the
shields to adapt to the voltage provided from the board. In future, shields will be
compatible both with the board that use the AVR, which operate with 5V and
with the Arduino Due that operate with 3.3V. The second one is a not connected
pin, that is reserved for future purposes.
 Stronger RESET circuit.

For information on using the board with the Android OS, see:
You can find your board warranty information here.
Getting Started
In the Getting Started section, you can find all the information
you need to configure your board, use the Arduino Software
(IDE), and start to tinker with coding and electronics.
Google's ADK documentation.
Need Help?

 On Projects on the Arduino Forum

 On the Product itself through our Customer Support

Technical Specs
Microcontroller ATmega2560
 Operating Voltage 5V
Input Voltage (recommended) 7-12V
Input Voltage (limits) 6-20V
Digital I/O Pins 54 (of which 15 provide PWM output)
Analog Input Pins 16
DC Current per I/O Pin 40 mA
DC Current for 3.3V Pin 50 mA
Flash Memory 256 KB of which 8 KB used by bootloader
SRAM 8 KB
EEPROM 4 KB
Clock Speed 16 MHz
USB Host Chip MAX3421E
Length 101.52 mm
Width 53.3 mm
Weight 36 g

Power
The Arduino MEGA ADK can be powered via the USB connection
or with an external power supply. The power source is selected
automatically.
External (non-USB) power can come either from an AC-to-DC
adapter (wall-wart) or battery. The adapter can be connected by
plugging a 2.1mm center-positive plug into the board's power
jack. Leads from a battery can be inserted in the Gnd and Vin
pin headers of the POWER connector.
NB: Because the MEGA ADK is a USB Host, the phone will
attempt to draw power from it when it needs to charge. When
the ADK is powered over USB, 500mA total is available for the
phone and board.The external power regulator can supply up to
1500mA. 750mA is available for the phone and MEGA ADK
board. An additional 750mA is allocated for any actuators and
sensors attached to the board. A power supply must be capable
of providing 1.5A to use this much current.
The board can operate on an external supply of 5.5 to 16 volts.
If supplied with less than 7V, however, the 5V pin may supply
less than five volts and the board may be unstable. If using
more than 12V, the voltage regulator may overheat and damage
the board. The recommended range is 7 to 12 volts.
The power pins are as follows:

 VIN. The input voltage to the Arduino board when it's using an external
power source (as opposed to 5 volts from the USB connection or other regulated
 power source). You can supply voltage through this pin, or, if supplying voltage
via the power jack, access it through this pin.
 5V. This pin outputs a regulated 5V from the regulator on the board. The
board can be supplied with power either from the DC power jack (7 - 12V), the
USB connector (5V), or the VIN pin of the board (7-12V). Supplying voltage via
the 5V or 3.3V pins bypasses the regulator, and can damage your board. We don't
advise it.
 3V3. A 3.3 volt supply generated by the on-board regulator. Maximum
current draw is 50 mA.
 GND. Ground pins.
 IOREF. This pin on the Arduino board provides the voltage reference with
which the microcontroller operates. A properly configured shield can read the
IOREF pin voltage and select the appropriate power source or enable voltage
translators on the outputs for working with the 5V or 3.3V.

Memory
The MEGA ADK has 256 KB of flash memory for storing code (of
which 8 KB is used for the bootloader), 8 KB of SRAM and 4 KB
of EEPROM (which can be read and written with the EEPROM
library).
Input and Output
Each of the 50 digital pins on the MEGA ADK can be used as an
input or output, using pinMode(), digitalWrite(),
and digitalRead() functions. They operate at 5 volts. Each pin
can provide or receive a maximum of 40 mA and has an internal
pull-up resistor (disconnected by default) of 20-50 kOhms. In
addition, some pins have specialized functions:

 Serial: 0 (RX) and 1 (TX); Serial 1: 19 (RX) and 18 (TX); Serial 2: 17

(RX) and 16 (TX); Serial 3: 15 (RX) and 14 (TX). Used to receive (RX) and
transmit (TX) TTL serial data. Pins 0 and 1 are also connected to the
corresponding pins of the ATmega8U2 USB-to-TTL Serial chip.
 External Interrupts: 2 (interrupt 0), 3 (interrupt 1), 18 (interrupt 5), 19
(interrupt 4), 20 (interrupt 3), and 21 (interrupt 2). These pins can be configured
to trigger an interrupt on a low value, a rising or falling edge, or a change in
value. See the attachInterrupt() function for details.
 PWM: 2 to 13 and 44 to 46. Provide 8-bit PWM output with
the analogWrite() function.
 SPI: 50 (MISO), 51 (MOSI), 52 (SCK), 53 (SS). These pins support SPI
communication using the SPI library. The SPI pins are also broken out on the
 ICSP header, which is physically compatible with the Uno, Duemilanove and
Diecimila.
 USB Host: MAX3421E.

The MAX3421E comunicate with Arduino with the SPI bus. So it uses the

following pins:

 Digital: 7 (RST), 50 (MISO), 51 (MOSI), 52 (SCK).

NB:Please do not use Digital pin 7 as input or output because is used in the
comunication with MAX3421E
 Non broken out on headers: PJ3 (GP_MAX), PJ6 (INT_MAX), PH7 (SS).
 LED: 13.There is a built-in LED connected to digital pin 13. When the pin
is HIGH value, the LED is on, when the pin is LOW, it's off.
 TWI: 20 (SDA) and 21 (SCL). Support TWI communication using
the Wire library. Note that these pins are not in the same location as the TWI pins
on the Duemilanove or Diecimila.

The MEGA ADK has 16 analog inputs, each of which provide 10

bits of resolution (i.e. 1024 different values). By default they
measure from ground to 5 volts, though is it possible to change
the upper end of their range using the AREF pin and
analogReference() function.
There are a couple of other pins on the board:

 AREF. Reference voltage for the analog inputs. Used

with analogReference().
 Reset. Bring this line LOW to reset the microcontroller. Typically used to
add a reset button to shields which block the one on the board.

Communication
The Arduino MEGA ADK has a number of facilities for
communicating with a computer, another Arduino, or other
microcontrollers. The ATmega2560 provides four
hardware UARTs for TTL (5V) serial communication.
An ATmega8U2 on the board channels one of these over USB
and provides a virtual com port to software on the computer
(Windows machines will need a .inf file, but OSX and Linux
machines will recognize the board as a COM port automatically.
The Arduino software includes a serial monitor which allows
simple textual data to be sent to and from the board. The RX
 and TX LEDs on the board will flash when data is being
transmitted via the ATmega8U2/16U2 chip and USB connection
to the computer (but not for serial communication on pins 0 and
1).
A SoftwareSerial library allows for serial communication on any
of the MEGA ADK's digital pins.
The ATmega2560 also supports TWI and SPI communication.
The Arduino software includes a Wire library to simplify use of
the TWI bus; see the Wire library for details. For SPI
communication, use the SPI library.
The USB host interface given by MAX3421E IC allows the
Arduino MEGA ADK to connect and interact to any type of device
that have a USB port. For example, allows you to interact with
many types of phones, controlling Canon cameras, interfacing
with keyboard, mouse and games controllers as Wiimote
and PS3.
Programming
The Arduino MEGA ADK can be programmed with the Arduino
software (download). For details, see
the reference and tutorials.
The ATmega2560 on the Arduino MEGA ADK comes preburned
with a bootloader (the same on Mega 2560) that allows you to
upload new code to it without the use of an external hardware
programmer. It communicates using the
original STK500v2 protocol (reference, C header files).
You can also bypass the bootloader and program the
microcontroller through the ICSP (In-Circuit Serial
Programming) header using Arduino ISP or similar; see these
instructions for details.
The ATmega8U2 firmware source code is available in the
Arduino repository. The ATmega8U2 is loaded with a DFU
bootloader, which can be activated by:

 On Rev1 boards: connecting the solder jumper on the back of the board
(near the map of Italy) and then resetting the 8U2.
 On Rev2 or later boards: there is a resistor that pulling the 8U2/16U2
HWB line to ground, making it easier to put into DFU mode. You can then
use Atmel's FLIP software (Windows) or the DFU programmer (Mac OS X and
Linux) to load a new firmware. Or you can use the ISP header with an external
programmer (overwriting the DFU bootloader). See this user-contributed
tutorial for more information.

Automatic (Software) Reset

Rather then requiring a physical press of the reset button before
an upload, the Arduino MEGA ADK is designed in a way that
allows it to be reset by software running on a connected
computer. One of the hardware flow control lines (DTR) of
the ATmega8U2 is connected to the reset line of
the ATmega2560 via a 100 nanofarad capacitor. When this line
is asserted (taken low), the reset line drops long enough to
reset the chip. The Arduino software uses this capability to allow
you to upload code by simply pressing the upload button in the
Arduino environment. This means that the bootloader can have
a shorter timeout, as the lowering of DTR can be well-
coordinated with the start of the upload.