An interactive list of features and reviews to help you pick the right microcontroller for your projects.
It’s March 14th (3/14) and Pi day is upon us (the numerical value of π is 3.14159…) so the Raspberry Pi foundation has a new release for us. The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is an upgrade to their now two year old classic board. While the Pi 3 B+ will likely become the new de facto […]
We have already covered a good number of Adafruit’s line of boards designed to support their new CircuitPython system. While these boards still interact with the Arduino ecosystem that we all love (or don’t), they shine while running the custom built python distribution that they were designed for. Most of these boards are similar to […]
Building from the success of the first Espruino board, creator Gordon Williams revisited Kickstarter to launch its successor, the Espruino Pico. The biggest changes are its processor — a powerful ARM Cortex M4 — and its form factor — a diminutive 1.3″ x 0.6″, with a USB type-A male plug on one end, letting you pop the board […]
The RedBoard from SparkFun isn’t anything special; it doesn’t have a lot of fancy bells and whistles or features no other Arduino has. It is, however, a simple, reliable Arduino clone — and very often THAT is exactly what you need. When programing the RedBoard in the Arduino IDE you use the Arduino Uno settings; […]
Before the Arduino, there were not a lot of easy to get started with options for people looking to get into embedded electronics. Many of the projects you would find at the time were based on PIC microcontrollers and needed special hardware programmers and sometimes expensive software. Despite this, the PIC had and still has, […]
The chipKit’s uC32 board’s shape and size may make it look like another Arduino clone but it has a lot more power and possibility. Five times as fast, with more than double the I/O pins of an Arduino Uno, the uC32 would be a great board for the maker with an ambitious project in mind. […]
There are numerous boards on the market targeting Arduino users who want to integrate circuits into wearables with ease. This all kicked off with the introduction of the Lilypad Arduino 10 years ago (wow, how time flies). For many people, the problem with these boards was they were big and bulky and, for the most […]
