An interactive list of features and reviews to help you pick the right microcontroller for your projects.
The Spartan Edge Accelerator Board (SEA for short) is an FPGA development board with a standout form factor that we all know well: the Arduino shield. But those familiar with FPGAs might ask “Why would I want this? Aren’t Arduinos and FPGAs on the opposite sides of both the complexity and ease-of-use spectrums?” The SEA […]
The Raspberry Pi Pico is the first microcontroller developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It’s powered by the RP2040 chip, an all-new design created in-house by Raspberry Pi (their first foray into custom silicon), which features a dual-core 133MHz Arm Cortex-M0+ processor with 264KB of RAM and supports up to 16MB of off-chip flash memory. […]
The first custom microcontroller chip from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the RP2040, is here and SparkFun has put it on a MicroMod board to integrate with their MicroMod system of carrier boards. With the addition of the RP2040, SparkFun offers seven different microcontroller chips on MicroMod boards. The boards attach via an M.2 socket to […]
The SparkFun Pro Micro RP2040 takes the new RP2040 microcontroller chip from the Raspberry Pi Foundation and puts it in a minimal form factor. Previously, SparkFun used the Pro Micro form factor with an ATmega32u4 to provide the functionality of an Arduino Leonardo: the usual GPIO, analog inputs and PWM outputs plus native USB support. […]
Everybody’s favorite new-ish processor is showing up to the party again in another brand new costume. The Tiny 2040 is brought to us by our friends at Pimoroni, makers of way too many awesome and must-have microcontroller bits and pieces. This time they’ve put the RP2040 on a shrunken-down board the size of a postage […]
The Arduino Nano 33 BLE is a Nano-sized board with Bluetooth connectivity and a 9-axis inertial measurement unit (IMU) that adds a compass to the usual gyroscope and accelerometer. This board should not be confused with the Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense. The two boards are identical except the Arduino Nano 33 BLE does not […]
Not only did we get a new Raspberry Pi with their new Pico, we got a whole new chip! Now, rather than just bonnets and hats, we get new boards from outside vendors using the RP2040 chip, and it’s quickly making its way to all of the competing form factors. That’s how we arrive at the […]
