An interactive list of features and reviews to help you pick the right microcontroller for your projects.
The Arduino UNO, first announced at our own Maker Faire, is one of the โ if not the โ most recognizable icons of the maker movement. It was an Uno-like board, the Diecimila, that got this humble author excited about hacking on electronics projects, and I’ve continued my love affair with the brand ever since. […]
The Adafruit Feather RP2040 with DVI is a microcontroller board capable of DVI digital video output on an HDMI port. That it is possible for a general-purpose microcontroller to generate a DVI signal is impressive, but it requires running the RP2040 beyond its limits. When the Raspberry Pi Foundation introduced its RP2040 microcontroller, one standout […]
If you ever thought your microcontroller board needed more LEDs, the FeatherS2 Neo might be for you. In addition to status LEDs, It features a bright 5ร5 RGB LED matrix near the middle of the board. Unexpected Maker suggests you could use this for debugging output, even using it as a character display with scrolling […]
The ATtiny1616 Breakout with seesaw is a different kind of microcontroller board. Rather than being a target for standalone programs, this breakout board is designed to be an intelligent port expander for other microcontroller boards. This is achieved using the purpose-written seesaw library from Adafruit. The ATtiny1616 Breakout comes with seesaw preinstalled on the board, […]
The latest Adafruit Metro is the M7 with AirLift. The idea behind this board is to take a very powerful Arm Cortex-M7 microcontroller, put it in the Arduino Unoโs form factor, and then squeeze in a Wi-Fi subsystem along the edge. Adafruit then adds all the extras found on their recent boards. Itโs a very […]
The ATmega4809 Curiosity Nano board is an evaluation board from Microchip featuring one of the larger AVR microcontrollers from the 0-series. The board is designed to be maker-friendly with a familiar form factor supporting headers for breadboard use, plus castellated edges in case you choose to surface mount it. The board has an on-board programmer/debugger […]
The ATtiny3217 Curiosity Nano is an evaluation board from Microchip featuring one of their newer 1-series AVR microcontrollers. Microchip has made an effort to produce maker-friendly evaluation boards, so there isnโt much difference between this board and any other small microcontroller prototyping board. There is an on-board debugger that programs the chip and connects to […]
