Boards

One to note if you are heading to Nuremberg for Embedded World next week - DigiKey will be running its Great Board Giveaway promotion at the show.

Time for a new one in our Devboard Watch series. Digi International and SparkFun Electronics are combining on the cellular IoT-focused SparkFun Digi XBee.

This one is aimed at professionals – I’m stretching the ‘Gadget Book’ definition – and covers the design of embedded system electronics: Applied Embedded Electronics: Design Essentials for Robust Systems. The elevator pitch is that it’s “a comprehensive design reference, from initial concept to final PCB, for all embedded system electronics”. The publishers write: “This book guides you through all ...

I love this one, and I love the name: the BinDaycator, an MCU-controlled model that tells you which coloured bin is due for collection. I first saw an image of it on twitter, on one of those syndicate collection site – all about the bantz and the lolz and funny pets – but thought it was worth following further… It ...

Check out this single board computer newly available from Seed Studio: the Odyssey-STM32MP135D, based on an STMicroelectronics MPU, the MP135D.

Asus IoT, the IoT arm of the Taiwanese technology company, announces the Tinker Board 3N, an Arm-based single-board computer aimed at Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications.

Haven't done a devkit in a while, so let's make room for the Nordic Semiconductor nRF7002 DK, based - as you can guess - on its nRF7002 chip for Wi-Fi connectivity and Wi-Fi-based locationing.

This one may be of interest, we'll file it under our DevBoard Watch category: the XBee 3 Cellular LTE-M/NB-IoT Dev Kit from Digi.

It’s hello to the Nicla Vision, Arduino’s new single-board for image processing and edge computing applications. Essentially, its designed to be an easier way to prototype machine vision in action. It was created by the Ardiono organisation working in partnership ST Microelectronics – in similar fashion to how Arduino worked with Thales to create the Portenta Cat M1/NB IoT GNSS Shield. ...

SparkFun Electronics and MikroElektronika have partnered on a new board for prototyping, which is based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller: it's the SparkFun RP2040 mikroBUS Development Board.