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This is my current favorite dev/project board. It has so much stuff. WiFi, Bluetooth, LoRa, and LTE! It also has pins for analog/digital I/O. This thing is incr
by noman-land 5y ago
This is my current favorite dev/project board. It has so much stuff. WiFi, Bluetooth, LoRa, and LTE! It also has pins for analog/digital I/O. This thing is incredible.
https://pycom.io/product/fipy/ https://pycom.io/product/fipy/
Pycom also has various extension boards that plug right in with things like NFC/RFID, GPS, light/pressure/humidity sensors, etc.
Oh, and how could I forget to mention that it can run python directly on the microcontroller (micropython) so you don't need to know C to mess with it. And it does that thing where it mounts as a filesystem and you can just drag python files over to it and it'll automatically reboot into running them.
Highly recommend this little device.
- nacs 5y agoAt $60+ per, that is a very expensive board unless you really need LTE built in.
- keithnz 5y agothey have variants with different feature sets, that is one has all the toys.
- matt_trentini 5y agoJust be aware that PyCom chose to fork the MIT-licensed MicroPython and re-licensed it with GPL. As a MicroPython contributor I can't/won't use PyCom's fork because any code I develop for it cannot be accepted upstream. I do like their hardware, it's a shame they chose to make their software licensing incompatible.
- noman-land 5y agoInteresting. I did not know this. I'll look more into it. Thank you. I agree their hardware is awesome so I will look into alternative firmware if possible.
- matt_trentini 5y agoI'd like to work on tailoring a mainline MicroPython build to their boards - to support their peripherals - but it has, so far, been low on my priority list.