I would like to use a Teensy (possibly a 3.1) for portable testing when I'm not at my bench with gear in hand. I'd like to have an arduino with a good amount of sram (similar to my megas) for debugging with serial strings. Something I can plug in and do run tests with while I'm on the road.
Ideally I'd like a very small unit in a package just like a flash drive, that I could plug directly into my computer to use as a test bed. I see all the small arduinos have a usb mini or micro on them. Is it possible to shoehorn a USB A full size on there somehow? I don't need any of the pin headers, nothing will be connecting to it during testing. I just need to see that my sketches are compiling and processing properly. (some are quite complex) So I'd love to be able to plug something in directly to my computer like a flash drive, not have to mess around with cables and arduinos flopping around. Sometimes when I'm on the road with my laptop I've already got my hands full holding onto my laptop, last thing in the world I need is a cable geting ripped out wrong or a board grounding itself out on a table leg or something.
Ideally I'd like a very small unit in a package just like a flash drive, that I could plug directly into my computer to use as a test bed. I see all the small arduinos have a usb mini or micro on them. Is it possible to shoehorn a USB A full size on there somehow? I don't need any of the pin headers, nothing will be connecting to it during testing. I just need to see that my sketches are compiling and processing properly. (some are quite complex) So I'd love to be able to plug something in directly to my computer like a flash drive, not have to mess around with cables and arduinos flopping around. Sometimes when I'm on the road with my laptop I've already got my hands full holding onto my laptop, last thing in the world I need is a cable geting ripped out wrong or a board grounding itself out on a table leg or something.