What is your Favourite Portenta Board?

Overcoming Winter Challenges with an Air Quality Monitor Using the Arduino^® Portenta C33 and Nicla Sense Env Boards.

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vmate 7 months ago

The X8 is really cool, but it's priced too high in my opinion. It would be amazing to have a "serious" Raspberry Pi compute module competitor(in terms of being supported, widespread, available, easy to use/design for), and on paper, the X8 could be it, but not at this price.
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balajivan1995 7 months ago

I selected X8 as my favorite board. i.MX processors have a really good processing speed, same goes for STM32H series as well. Arduino core for H7 boards have improved a lot and is stable since the last time I checked it.

It'll be interesting to see more projects being developed on Linux boards that are even smaller than RPi and I would like to read the works of the members.

I live in a region of South India where the minimum temperature doesn't drop below 20°c, but AQI is at an all time bad state. Maybe I could do an DIY air purifier with HEPA filter, honestly I don't need an advanced AI system to monitor air quality to turn it on as it will be quite bad always.
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genebren 7 months ago

I have not used any of these boards, so I voted other.
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dougw 7 months ago

The Portenta C33 is a pretty good step up from a Nano 33, but the price also reflects this. Generally the Portenta line have pretty good performance, but you have to really need the particular feature set to make them worth purchasing.
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kmikemoo 7 months ago

Like genebren , I haven't used any of the Portenta boards. They are a bit too expensive for my hobby budget.
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balajivan1995 7 months ago in reply to kmikemoo

Portenta H7 and Opta both uses STM32H7 series. Only difference is the dev kit is optimised for PLC and to support higher voltage in the case of Opta whereas Portenta is breadboard friendly.
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kmikemoo 7 months ago in reply to balajivan1995

balajivan1995 Thank you. When I think "Portenta", I always think of the Portenta Machine Control. Only after posting did I realize that we were not talking about THAT Portenta board. I was too slow in editing my post.
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