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We’ve gotten so used to the Arduino layout it seems beyond question. You’ve got connections on both sides of the board, ready to be at the heart of an octopus-nest of cables. Great for prototyping. But what about when the prototype is done, and you’re ready to make a permanent version of your gadget? You’d […]
I have a confession. I didn’t want to like this board. It was just a little too… overt. Do I dress mostly in black? Guilty as charged. Is “Floodland” the best album of the 1980s? If you’re asking me, yes. Making a project with a board decorated as a skull, whose default app was a […]
Frame everything else you hear about Sony’s Spresense with this fact: It needs very little power to run. The board is built around the chipset Sony designed to run its smart earbuds. From the start, it needed to be able to run off a battery small enough to tuck behind your ear and forget. That’s […]
Raspberry Pi has been the standard for single board computers. The Pi has the largest community of users, the most project guides written, and the most tested software packages for a cheap computer that fits in the palm of your hand. The new Model A+ occupies a frankly strange place in the current line-up of […]
There’s more and more boards out there every day offering a controller, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. If that was all the Argon was, we might be praising it for its ease of use. It’s a full featured board, with documentation that’s lighthearted and downright pleasant to study. The attention to detail in making this a board […]
Have a project that calls for not just one gizmo, but a swarm? Particle.io made the Xenon to be the brains of each node of that swarm. It’s the building block for their push to make building mesh networks easy, if not downright fun. The big idea of a mesh network is that you want […]
Since their announcement of the MKR line of devices in late 2015, the Arduino team has continued to roll out devices with this new form factor. We’ve looked at other boards in the MKR line and today we get hands on with the Arduino MKR WiFi 1010, a basic WiFi enabled board that is nicely […]
