An interactive list of features and reviews to help you pick the right microcontroller for your projects.
To make the next step beyond an introductory Arduino, to explore different sensors, and to do pretty things with lights, it would be hard to beat the Adafruit Circuit Playground. This board is ready to let a student explore common sensors without even needing to break out a breadboard, much less a soldering iron. And […]
The Joule packs power similar to a mid-range laptop computer into a 1″×2″ module. It supports burst speeds up to 2.4 GHz, has 4GB of RAM, built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, on-chip graphics acceleration, and supports Intel’s new family of RealSense cameras with depth perception. Makers will appreciate the larger development board the Joule comes atop, […]
The Parallella board is a single board computer the size of a credit card, and similar in many respects to the Raspberry Pi, but with different onboard processing. It kicks SBC’s up a notch — with its high performance and efficiency, it’s a super computer. This board is an obvious stand-out, featuring an 18-core parallel processing system. If […]
The TM4C1294 LaunchPad demonstrates TI’s recommended chip for secure Internet-of-Things devices. It has a phenomenal number of pins, and connects to wired Ethernet. Out of the box, you’re encouraged to hook the board up to the cloud first, and demonstrate that you can control your LaunchPad over the web. TI offers many options for writing […]
Adafruit’s family of Feather boards are simple, compact microcontrollers built to showcase advanced features like advanced processors, radios, or GPS. This Feather board has a built-in radio, tuned for communication over a mile using just a few inches of wire as an antenna. Adafruit has a knack for writing clear, concise documentation that will get […]
Welcome to the Biosignal Revolution Suppose you could measure your mood, your stress level, or enthusiasm electronically and use it to control your surroundings? I have been using the original BITalino board for a couple years — an Arduino-like microcontroller dev board with built-in biosignal sensing modules — in projects such as mood-controlled inflatable wearables […]
MESH is a new series of thumb-sized blocks, each of which has a single function: Turn on a light; Detect shaking; Detect the ambient light level. MESH blocks communicate over bluetooth with each other, your phone, or IoT devices like the Phillips Smart Lighting system. Rather than programming them normally, you set which blocks should […]
