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Arduino's new Nano board family is more powerful and affordable
Arduino's new Nano board family is more powerful and affordable. The most basic one will set out back $9.90.
Arduino's Nano line will soon welcome four new products. They're all small boards like the classic one, making Nano a family of small boards meant for compact projects. All the new boards boast low energy consumption and processors more powerful than what the classic has. Even better, they're all pretty affordable: the most basic entry called Nano Every, which you can use for "everyday" projects and can replace the classic Nano, will even set you back as little as $9.90.
Arduino co-founder Massimo Banzi said in a statement:
"The new Nanos are for those millions of makers who love using the Arduino IDE for its simplicity and open source aspect, but just want a great value, small and powerful board they can trust for their compact projects. With prices from as low as $9.90 for the Nano Every, this family fills that gap in the Arduino range, providing makers with the Arduino quality they deserve for those everyday projects."
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @01:26PM (1 child)
Or perhaps you want something that has pretty good resilience to power fluctuations, far lower power usage while operating and better (thriftier) sleep modes, more precise realtime operation, etc etc so you just get an AVR. Why not do your dev with an Arduino? Large education-focused community and tons of tooling, easily adaptable if needs be. Well designed and tough little boards.
You pick what works. If you want a cheap limited MCU with good connectivity features, an ESP is fine. If you just want some sloppy/slow GPIO or are restricted to standard buses, need lots of compute and don't care about your power budget at all, you might get something in ARM flavour.
Or you can just rant about something you don't understand on the internet while trying to masturbate over how clever you are. Whatever makes you happy.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday May 22 2019, @02:22PM
I'm pretty sure there's an Arduino shield for that with a vibrant and inclusive developer community.
The brutal fact of engineering is most things are ideal for something under some obscure conditions, although really bad products are ideal for nothing at all, when even bad "fits" are still better across the board (get the pun, board, LOL?)