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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: 0, Troll) by VLM on Wednesday May 22 2019, @01:47PM (2 children)
What is it, then?
Note that I know a lot about what we're discussing, so I'm not asking academically or honestly. I'm just kinda amused at the idea of how you're gonna try to dig out of that particular hole.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @02:54PM (1 child)
I don't understand what exactly is your major malfunction here. I was talking about some PIC microcontroller vs and arduino board as the OP did. Just because you can buy a PIC chip with more features for $3 doesn't mean it's better than Arduino board that costs $10. The Arduino board also has crystal and other support components, that the plain PIC microcontroller does not. It's going to be a lot more work to get that plain PIC running.
(Score: 1) by Acabatag on Thursday May 23 2019, @12:04AM
For many applications where timing is not critical, there are built in trimmed/trimmable RC clocks inside the chip package. The PIC10F2xx family, for instance, comes in a six pin package. You have to spend two pins for power and ground, but the other four pins are versatile I/O lines.