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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: 4, Insightful) by Freeman on Wednesday May 22 2019, @03:12PM (2 children)
No, it's the fact that it's a cheap board with decent features and a large following of people who support it. As far as learning computers / programming / etc. goes, you'd do much worse than introducing a kid to a RaspberryPi. In fact, one might say introducing a kid to a RaspberryPi would be very beneficial to them as opposed to introducing them to Windows/Apple/Android.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @09:04PM (1 child)
Raspberry pi's are too closed.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Acabatag on Thursday May 23 2019, @12:13AM
At the hardware level they are too closed. It's not the same experience as a Commodore 64 where they used common off-the-shelf 8 bit peripheral chips for most of the design. But the Pi is an introductory level system. Kids with the gumption to go further will get involved with low cost PICs and AVR chips (not necessarily on an over-priced Arduino brand PC Board).