An interactive list of features and reviews to help you pick the right microcontroller for your projects.
BeagleBones have always been a great choice if you wanted the power of a full operating system with the low-level control of a microcontroller. The Black Wireless adds Bluetooth 4.1 and Wi-Fi to their most popular release. As a Linux machine it is a little less powerful than the Raspberry Pi 3, but the number […]
The ODROID-XU4 is a slightly expensive yet powerful board that works well for a home NAS system, processor-based crypto-mining or IoT buildout. It has great accessory options including a 7-inch touchscreen which is powered through one of its USB ports and is fed video through the HDMI port. There are Odroid builds of Android and […]
The Teensy 3.5 is large, for a Teensy. But that just gives it more room for pins, both analog and digital, continuing the Teensy tradition of packing in an impressive amount of I/O and speed. It also has a microSD socket, USB, and can emulate USB devices. Once the Teensyduino software has been added to […]
The Nordic Thingy:52 makes it easy for you to start creating your own IoT devices. This is not your ordinary dev board — instead of a multitude of GPIO pins, you get a ton of onboard sensors, a button, and speaker. Built-in Bluetooth connects to your phone or computer to provide internet connectivity. The pre-designed […]
Improving on the Plus 2, Shenzhen Xunlong has made some significant changes using feedback from the Armbian community, giving the new Plus 2E much improved I/O bandwidth with 16GB eMMC and three dedicated USB2.0 host ports that, notably, don’t need to share bandwidth. They’ve also amped up the system memory, with 2GB DDR3. The Plus […]
With both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth onboard, the LinkIt 7697 is a versatile and inexpensive device for connecting to the internet or your devices. The board’s MediaTek MT7697 chip is a little less powerful than ESP32 microcontrollers found on similar Wi-Fi/Bluetooth boards, but still far faster than an Arduino Uno. The board can be programmed through the […]
When the ESP8266 first hit the market, it shook things up. Here was a 32-bit microcontroller that often cost under $5 AND had Wi-Fi built in… how could things get any better? Well add Bluetooth of course! The result is the ESP32 board that provides the meat of the Adafruit Huzzah32, a member of the […]
