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The Ultimate Project Kit?

dougw
dougw 2 days ago

The question is what constitutes an ideal project kit?

Of course it is going to be impossible to come up with a universal set of building blocks that covers every application, but given a fairly generic set of basic building blocks, what would be the most common solution that you would propose - to fit more applications than other solutions?

Assume a generic project would include a microcontroller, a sensor, an actuator, a user interface, and a power supply.

What else? Would you include signal conditioning circuits or amplifiers? Would you include audio components? Would you include LEDs?

To get the ball rolling, I would suggest 2 scenarios - a high end kit and a lower end kit.

For the high end kit I would go with an Arduino Giga with its touch LCD, a ToF Laser Ranging Sensor, a servo motor, and a USB C power module. The Giga could use a small powered speaker as a nice option.

For the lower kit I would go with an Arduino Nano R4 and a 1" OLED display instead of the Giga but keep the ToF sensor, servo and USB C power.

I expect others will prefer a Raspberry Pi to a Giga, but we will find out in the comments.

Leave a comment to elaborate on your thinking.

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  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett 1 day ago in reply to dang74 +6
    This little display board is about as near as I get to a universal board. It is powered by a GigaDevices ARM processor and has serial ports for control. I've used it in a few projects, and it's going…
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    dougw 2 days ago in reply to ntewinkel +4
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  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave 2 days ago +2
    Can you elaborate upon what the ultimate project kit is being aimed at ? I think one of the primary factors will be if it needs to be networked or not. Another will be on power consumption.
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    DAB 2 days ago

    Interesting project Douglas.

    I like the PSOC offerings as you get a nice coverage of both digital and analog options within the same architecture.

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    DAB 2 days ago

    Interesting project Douglas.

    I like the PSOC offerings as you get a nice coverage of both digital and analog options within the same architecture.

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    dougw 2 days ago in reply to DAB

    I like them a lot too, although the price has crept up. I wonder if an Arduino that used PSoC would improve their popularity.

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  • misaz
    misaz 1 day ago in reply to dougw

    I am pretty sure it will. Several vendors (recently ST, Renesas, Qualcomm) made some deal with Arduino just for this purposes and Arduno now makes boards with much more diverse set of chips: many kinds of 8-bit and 32-bit AVR of several generations, Nordic nRF5, Espressif ESP32, many STMs, Renesas RA4, Raspberry RP2040, ....

    Obviously PSoC is missing. But to me it seems that Cypress/Infineon always focused highly professional market and focused much less to maker market.

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