An interactive list of features and reviews to help you pick the right microcontroller for your projects.
The day before Makers around the world celebrated Arduino day on March 28, 2015, major news quietly hit the ESP8266 forums. A post by Richard Sloan declared that he and Ivan Grokhotkov had successfully hacked ESP8266 support into the Arduino IDE. For those following the forum this announcement was a big deal; for everyone else, it would be a week or two […]
This relatively inexpensive single board computer operates at 1GHz with 512MB of RAM, and has 4GBs of built-in eMMC flash storage. Augmenting the clock speed are two onboard microcontrollers, called programmable realtime units (PRUs). The PRUs are within the silicon of the main processor and can be programmed to offload realtime computation for things like robotics motor control or highspeed pin toggling used in lighting control. Each operates […]
Essentially, Banana Pi is a souped-up clone of the first-gen Raspberry Pis. It has an ARM Cortex-A7 Dual-core CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 1Gbps Ethernet port, and is compatible with Raspberry Pi add-on hardware.
The Espruino is a JavaScript-based microcontroller that boasts 44 GPIO pins, a micro USB connector, and an SD card reader. While it doesn’t have any built-in Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, it has pads that allow you to add HC-05 Bluetooth modules.
With an ATmega32u4 chip microcontroller and an Xbee wireless module, the DFRobot Leonardo with Xbee offers the same, easy to use interface of an Arduino Leonardo with added functionality for wireless communications.
The BeagleBoard X15 is the latest embedded development board from the non-profit BeagleBoard.org foundation and it is one powerful, open source hardware puppy! While the board has been a poorly kept open secret, with details emerging on various social networks and even coverage on a few blogs, the foundation has not released any official specifications […]
The Arrow SmartEverything packs a ton of features into this IoT development board. It includes an onboard Sigfox module, GPS unit, and BLE, plus sensors for measuring temperature, humidity, pressure, and acceleration out-of-the-box. It also sports encryption features, which put it ahead of the curve compared to other IoT boards.
