Fitting an Arduino processor on a PC Motherboard

[LuciferTechWizz]

Hello everyone. First of all I would like to mention that I searched about this thread before posting it.

 

My question here is, can an Arduino Processor be fit in a standard PC Motherboard? I made some research but I found nothing at all.

 

Sorry for such a small post, I don't know what else to put in here, and thank you for any replies!

[vikiplayz]

not sure might depend on what it supports

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

What exactly do you mean? Do you mean the board? The processor itself? Attached to some pins? What?

 

Taken at the surface, the answer is no, because there's nothing in which to mount the board.

[mariushm]

Arduino uses an 8 bit  microcontroller , it's not a processor. 

 

You could create a custom circuit board that you could insert into  a PCI slot or PCI Express slot in order to take power from those slots, but communicating with the computer through those slots is very complex (it would take a lot of code to do it, maybe so much that the microcontroller may not have enough built in memory to store all that code)

You could add a SPI/i2c/UART to USB chip (serial communication) on your custom arduino board and them connect the USB created by that chip to one of the USB 2.0 headers and then your arduino could talk to the computer using serial communication, so software on the computer could send and receive data from your custom arduino board

 

When you're ready to go a step above Arduino, there are microcontrollers like PIC18 and PIC32 which have USB functionality built in and which is fast enough (can do a few mbps in both directions) which makes it possible to do neat things with them.