An interactive list of features and reviews to help you pick the right microcontroller for your projects.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The SAM 15×15 is one of the smallest boards I’ve seen to date. And while it may be small, it’s quite powerful. The board is based off the Arduino Zero and the SAMD21G18. The SAMD21 chip is super fast, running off C++ with Arduino software, and offers more I/O pinouts than the Zero (34 instead […]
Last year, when the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the Pi Zero and that it would cost only $5 and come free with an upcoming issue of the Pi themed magazine MagPi, everyone went crazy for it. Even over a year later, the Zeros are hard to purchase due to demand. To achieve this price point […]
The ESP32 Thing is chip-maker Espressif’s follow up to their hit from a few years ago, the ESP8266, a microprocessor with built-in Wi-Fi for just a few bucks. For just a few bucks more, the ESP32 adds a lot more horsepower, pins, and built-in sensors. And as before, SparkFun has put it on a breakout […]
When you’re thinking about making your own fitness tracker, smartwatch, or wearable biosensing device, Maxim Integrated has recently launched the hSensor Platform, offered as the MAXREFDES100# reference design, which is a great place to start. Although it is primarily designed as a development kit, out of the box it already offers some exciting functionality, allowing […]
