An interactive list of features and reviews to help you pick the right microcontroller for your projects.
Looking at the specs of the Teensy 4.0 sent me back to my time in Akihabara, Japan circa 1999. Polished CD players catch the sun in every main street shop window, but just a block into the backstreets crowded bins of raw electronic parts line the shops. From a barely-advertised store I catch a glimpse […]
Let me just out and say it: I love this little board. Will you? Here’s the key question: Are you excited to learn a whole new skill, one that will open up entire new avenues in how you build circuits, but that will also demand that you start fresh learning an entirely new programming language […]
Adafruit’s NeoTrellis has a nifty microcontroller at its heart, but you’re going to get one because of what it’s powering: A reprogrammable light-up keypad. Running through Adafruit’s always-excellent tutorials will get you to load up a drum machine, or put sound effects at your fingertips, one per button. The NeoTrellis has a headset jack, microphone […]
Asus Tinker is a solid choice for a single board computer. It’s become my go to favorite when I want an SBC with a bit of oomph; one that can run a complex makefile without choking or keep a few browser tabs open without grinding to a crawl. With the new “S” model, it’s simpler […]
It’s a good month to be a maker in Artificial Intelligence. March sees the launch of Nvidia’s Jetson Nano, the fourth board in their Jetson line for running robots and other autonomous machines. Earlier boards were more and more powerful, leading up to last year’s Jetson Xavier. Now, for the first time, Jetson is affordable […]
We’re seeing a rush of new boards touting their AI support. Google’s Coral.ai dev board will be one to beat. Most current AI happens in supercomputing clusters, but this year we’re seeing a push to move AI to “the edge”, with the processing happening on the little devices scattered around the world, rather than being […]
