An interactive list of features and reviews to help you pick the right microcontroller for your projects.
The AVR64DD32 Curiosity Nano is an evaluation board from Microchip that showcases a relatively new chip not currently found on any other microcontroller development board. Although we often think of evaluation boards as clunky affairs with limited capabilities, Microchip has made their evaluation boards maker-friendly. The board features an on-board programmer and debugger that provides […]
The Adafruit ESP32-S3 Feather represents an upgrade to ESP32-based microcontrollers in the popular Feather form factor. This new ESP32 chip is a dual-core design running at 240 MHz. It has built-in support for Wi-Fi and BLE. For comparison, the ESP32-S2 was single-core and did not support BLE. Both chips have native USB support, making it […]
The QT Py ESP32 Pico is a tiny microcontroller board featuring Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. The heart of the board is the all-in-one ESP32 Pico V3 02. This chip provides 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (with BLE). It has 8 MB of flash memory and 2 MB of RAM. It even brings its own oscillator. […]
The Adafruit MONSTER M4SK is a fun microcontroller platform aimed at building costumes or decorations. The first thing youโll notice is that the shape of the PCB is cat-eye glasses, only instead of lenses there are two 240×240 TFT displays. The default program on the board puts animated eyes on those two displays and has […]
What do you get when you cross an Arduino with a Raspberry Pi Zero? That is a strange question, but stranger still is that we now know the answer, and can hold it in our hands! EspinalLabโs ATMegaZero 32U4 takes the ATmega32u4 microcontroller found in Arduinoโs Leonardo board and mixes things up by including the […]
The Adafruit MagTag might just contain everything that you ever wanted in an e-Ink refrigerator magnet. First, the display itself is a comfortable 2.9″ presenting a 298x128x4 grayscale image. The 4-level grayscale is an excellent design choice, allowing improved image rendering while keeping display updates at about one second (Tri-color black, white, red displays often […]
Since its release in January of 2021, Raspberry Piโs first silicon, the RP2040, has taken the microcontroller world by storm. Its low cost, impressive capabilities (including its unique Programmable I/O), and โ letโs face it โ ability to be purchased in quantity amid a seemingly never-ending chip shortage, have led to wide adoption across the […]
