An interactive list of features and reviews to help you pick the right microcontroller for your projects.
When building embedded systems, the size of your board is always a consideration. The design of a product can be ruined by the need for a large, cumbersome PCB and its enclosure sticking out like Quasimodoโs defining characteristic. The Onion Omega2 line looks to keep your form factor in check with small systems that pack […]
Adafruit is pushing hard. They have a plan. And itโs pretty easy to spot it if you pay attention. Down with Arduino, up with Circuit Python! The Metro M0 Express makes it easy for those interested in going along for the ride to transition to the new platform. The โExpressโ editions of numerous popular Adafruit […]
The PocketBeagle is BeagleBone stripped down to its core: A processor, power regulation, plenty of pins, and nothing else. The result? A board with the full computing power of its big brother, the BeagleBone black, but that fits in a mini-mint tin, and sells for half the price. Itโs a dramatic trade off. Gone are […]
The Circuit Playground Express is a Swiss Army knife. Like its predecessor the Circuit Playground (now Classic) it has an accelerometer, ten Neopixel RGB LEDs, and other sensors on board making it easy to prototype many projects. The Express adds an infrared transceiver for communicating with other boards, but is much the same form factor […]
When the Raspberry Pi 3 was announced, one of the features that struck a chord with more than one .Net developer was that the Pi 3 would support Windows 10. This turned out to be a half truth with the Pi not supporting full Windows 10, but instead a specialized version known as Windows 10 […]
The Tinker is a single board computer by ASUS, a longtime favorite manufacturer of motherboards for gaming computers and overclockers. That heritage shows in the Tinker, which comes with a heat sink you’d be well advised to use. The Tinker is built to be plug-compatible with the Raspberry Pi, and shares its form factor, with […]
Wanna hack your ride? The Macchina M2 is essentially a programmable, Arduino-compatible microcontroller board with an OBD2 interface to communicate with your carโs CAN bus. Want to get full access to everything your car is communicating? Easy peasy. Want to engineer that into your own custom dashboard or data logging? Doable! Want to define your […]
