An interactive list of features and reviews to help you pick the right microcontroller for your projects.
The Adafruit Flora was developed specifically for wearables projects, and has 14 sewing tap pads for connecting conductive thread to your components. It features an onboard battery connector and a 2A power FET, making it easy to add portable power (and plenty of it). With so much power, the Flora is perfect for controlling large […]
The graphics processor onboard this power-packed 2.32GHz quadcore development board, with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of eMMC flash storage, is great for computer vision tasks on autonomous robotics. The NVIDIA Jetson TK1 powerful GPU, with an astonishing 192 CUDA cores (Compute Unified Device Architecture), allows non-graphics software tasks to be offloaded onto the GPU. […]
While it looks small, the PJRC Teensy can perform some pretty impressive feats. In addition to its 34 digital I/O pins, there are adaptors available for audio output, LED matrices, and more. It’s also Arduino compatible, so after downloading the driver, you can program it using the Arduino IDE you know and love.
Not all projects have to be massive, and some-times you just want a cheap, simple, small solution. The Adafruit Trinket checks all of those boxes, and despite its meager three I/O pins, it’s a great choice for driving just a few LEDs, or control-ling whole LED strips. It can be programmed via the Arduino IDE, […]
WiPy is an excellent device for those who know Python (or want to learn) and it’s designed to easily connect to home networks. The board doesn’t draw much power while crunching numbers — only about 14mA — and can drop into a super low-power hibernation state drawing just 5µA. With up to 25 GPIO pins, […]
Based on the Intel Edison single-board-computer, the Xadow-Edison board puts the Intel Edison in a convenient and powerful wearable package. There are numerous actuator, sensor, and interface modules that connect via flexible flat cables, making it easy to design and build your own custom wearable project as quickly as possible. With the computational capability of […]
Already supported by a strong community, The Raspberry Pi Foundation sold out of the initial batch of $5 Pi Zeros — all 20,000 of them — within the first 24 hours of its launch. Zero is a stripped-down version of the Raspberry Pi B+, but don’t let that fool you. This is one powerful little board at a price that’s […]
