An interactive list of features and reviews to help you pick the right microcontroller for your projects.
For years, the LilyPad platform has been the board of choice for developing soft circuits and e-textiles. It was designed to be easily sewn onto fabric with conductive thread, and is even washable so you can clean the garments they are attached to. Like many other boards in the Arduino family, the LilyPad has received […]
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We lead busy lives, sometimes as makers more than the rest. Hopping from work, home, hackerspaces, and Maker Faires can make keeping your gear together tough. The SparkFun RedStick is an Arduino Uno compatible dev board in the form factor of a USB stick, perfect for developing on-the-go. There are countless boards on the market […]
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Adding a display to an embedded project often requires more effort than everything else. Not so with SparkFun’s MicroView, which combines an Arduino-compatible board and OLED display in one small package. SparkFun’s library makes drawing to the display similar to using Processing, with shapes, text, as well as slider and gauge widgets perfect for showing […]
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The ESP8266-based Adafruit Feather Huzzah is a great way to connect your embedded project to the internet. The Huzzah comes preinstalled with the NodeMCU Lua environment, but Adafruit provides both board specification and libraries that make it easy to use with the Arduino IDE. The board is part of the Adafruit Feather lineup, so you […]
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Nvidia’s Jetson boards bring parallel processing for deep neural networks for visual recognition and other AI tasks. The TX2 is the latest board in that line. It trains and works faster, recognizing objects in an image in mere milliseconds. Despite its horsepower, the TX2 core runs on low wattage, suitable for battery-powered robots. The TX2 […]
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BeagleBone Blue will be familiar to anyone who has used a BeagleBone Black, but offers some new functionality in order to target robotics and machine control. It provides a fully open source, real-time embedded Linux platform in a small footprint. The board has a wide array of possibilities for sensors and connectors, including support for […]
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The Ameba RTL8195 is an Arduino-compatible development board for IoT. Like many IoT boards, the RTL8195 is optimal for any type of “sensing” project, from solar energy systems and other environmental readings to automation solutions as well as quadcopters and robotics. The board comes with Wi-Fi connectivity and an NFC tag with ethernet support via […]
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