Thursday, 19 February 2015

Review on CIKU from Cytron Technologies


Hello there…

Happy Chinese New Year to all my Chinese friends. May the year of goat brings everyone full of joyous moment and eternal prosperity.

First of all, I would like to thank Cytron Technologies for the gift sincerely. I found out this contest from their Facebook page around October last year.




Of course, I won’t miss this opportunity as I can grab the brand new product for free. Next, I have uploaded a simple product of mine to take part in the contest. 





In a quick moment, I requested most of my Facebook friends to like my post. Thanks god that I’ve made it! My post successfully grabs the attention of the organizer. Soon after, they posted my beloved product via mail directly to my address











Upon receiving my precious present, I start surfing the Cytron Technologies website to check its operational mode. Datasheet of CIKU is just downloaded into my lappy. I made a short conclusion of CIKU:

1. It uses PIC18F4550 from Microchip as microcontroller in main board which resembles Arduino UNO but not exactly the same. The images below are downloaded from Cytron Technologies main website.





2. It powered up by using a USB miniB cable where a normal PC can switch it on.

3. It operates with +5V and requires input voltage of 7V to 12V.

4. The structure developed from embedded system of the main microcontroller which contains 20 i/o pins. In contrast to Arduino Uno,it contains only two PWM pins.




5. Nonetheless, it has six analog input channels which allows us to stay away from the digital world. Hahaha…

6. In its internal architecture, where we can’t sense is 32Kbytes flash memory, 2Kbytes, 256 bytes of EEPROM and clock speed of 48MHz.

7. It can be program by using MPLAB XC8 compiler with the related header of Arduino’s library.




So, get ready to program the board and revise the basic language of C !

I will make a good use of CIKU in my coming projects.

Ciao…






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