You, too, can have your very own vanity Arduino clone - I do

[dhouston]

While exchanging emails with the Xino designer, it dawned on me that it might be easier to just design my own Arduino/Amicus18/Xino type main board.

For READ (rapid embedded application development), I prefer ZBasic, so I broached the subject with the proprietor. He said he had no plans along that line but suggested I might make it possible to turn it into an Arduino clone as that would add to its versatility. That led me to look at the Arduino UNO for the first time yesterday afternoon and, wonder of wonders, it quickly became obvious that all I need do was adapt the UNO design to use the ZX-328n in place of the AT Mega328P used in one version of the UNO and to replace the 16MHz resonator with a 14..7456 MHz crystal and I would have a ZBasic based development environment that could make use of the myriad of shields that seem to be proliferating like rabbits on Viagra.

Here's the result.

To revert it to a UNO, merely reverse the process, reinstall the Arduino Mega328P, replace the crystal with a 16MHz version and redo the artwork.