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Too many XIAOs?

rsc
rsc 21 days ago

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  • dang74
    dang74 20 days ago in reply to BigG
    BigG said:
    And those thin containers look very handy.

    Indeed.

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  • cstanton
    cstanton 20 days ago

    It's like they're grazing...

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  • BigG
    BigG 20 days ago in reply to ralphjy

    Impressed! And those thin containers look very handy.

    I too have all those, including the newer esp32-c5, the RA4M1 and the nRF54L15 arrived the other day.

    They are very handy.

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  • Fred27
    Fred27 20 days ago

    They look like nice boards and I have some mentally ear-marked for future projects. I was about to buy a couple recently but I already have desk drawers full of barely used development boards. (I am too ashamed to show you them all.)

    This is now my virtual parts drawer. It's full of interesting things to add to any upcoming order - especially if I'm near the free shipping threshold.

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  • vmate
    vmate 21 days ago in reply to rsc

    You could try and create some wrapper library that figures out what's needed on the current platform and dynamically imports the correct libraries for it

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  • ralphjy
    ralphjy 21 days ago

    I like that there are a huge variety of them and they can be directly soldered to a PCB assembly with their castellated pads.  I have many of the variants.  I have a few of the newer ones that I haven't had a chance to try yet - ESP32C5, RA4M1 and nRFL15 Sense.  I like that most of the newer boards have battery support.  It is also nice that they are compatible with Adafruit QT-PYs.  Adafruit has some nice add-on boards and a couple of RISC variants.

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  • rsc
    rsc 21 days ago in reply to Jan Cumps

    One issue is that the cool XIAO round display needs a different set of libraries for each XIAO configuration.  I've got to save my code files like this:  "WorksWithXiaoSamd21andRoundDisplay20oct2026.ino", and it still might not compile correctly the next time I try because some library changed version.

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps 21 days ago

    I have a similar amount, but they are all RP2040.
    A few of them, I use as Pico "picoprobe" Debuggers

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  • gordonmx
    gordonmx 21 days ago

    Never too many

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