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What Are Your Most Popular Dev Kits or Reference Design Kits?

rscasny
rscasny over 1 year ago

I was asked this question the other day. What Are Your Most Popular Dev Kits or Reference Design Kits? On impulse, I would venture to say the Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone. I'm sure there are others. Sensor kits, FPGA kits, Motor Contr0ol kits, Power kits, come to mind, but I'm not sure which ones element14 would consider "popular."

So, I figured I would ask you.  What are your most popular kits?  If you have the time, please leave a comment below. 

Thanks

Randall Scasny

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  • taifur
    taifur over 1 year ago +4
    Arduino Uno and Raspberry Pi is my favorite.
  • ZGoode
    ZGoode over 1 year ago +3
    Personally, I'm a big fan of any boards that use the standard layouts such as Arduino Uno or Adafruit Feather. As such, the Nucleo boards from STMicro are always great to work with since they are Arduino…
  • misaz
    misaz over 1 year ago +3
    STM32 Nucleos are very popular. I have seen them everywhere where the serious MCUs designs are made. I think that there are two key things for making board popular: Price to performance ratio …
  • robogary
    robogary over 1 year ago

    I've enjoyed the kits labeled "Inventor kits" and "engineering kits". Sensor kits are cool too.  

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  • ZGoode
    ZGoode over 1 year ago

    Personally, I'm a big fan of any boards that use the standard layouts such as Arduino Uno or Adafruit Feather.  As such, the Nucleo boards from STMicro are always great to work with since they are Arduino Uno header compatible and usually have decent examples to work with.  Same is to be said about the boards from Nordic Semiconductor

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  • taifur
    taifur over 1 year ago

    Arduino Uno and Raspberry Pi is my favorite.

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  • misaz
    misaz over 1 year ago

    STM32 Nucleos are very popular. I have seen them everywhere where the serious MCUs designs are made.

    I think that there are two key things for making board popular:

    1. Price to performance ratio
    2. Brand
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  • javagoza
    javagoza over 1 year ago

    At home for years I have always had an Arduino UNO on the table for any proof of concept or to teach something to my children. At work I usually work against sales terminals and pin pads of all types and the development environments are usually proprietary.

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  • misaz
    misaz over 1 year ago

    By the way, as a Newark employe you can ask your colegues form store department for listing best sellers... Slight smile Maybe it is more interesting than we think.

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  • genebren
    genebren over 1 year ago

    I tend to like development kits that relate to parts that I might want to use in my current or future designs.  The kits that I have gotten the greatest value from were some of the Atmel (now MicroChip) 'Xplained' boards/kits. I used a few of these boards to prototype some of the products that I have produced.  They assess to each pin on the processor and allow you an easy way to interfaces chips to the processor.

    I have purchased several of these boards, utilizing different processors from the ATtiny and Atmega families.

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  • prashanthgn.engineer
    prashanthgn.engineer over 1 year ago

    Arduino UNO

    After attending path to Programmable 3, its Ultra96

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  • misaz
    misaz over 1 year ago in reply to genebren

    Xplained boards are nice, but newer Curiosity Nanos are better, I think. Slight smile

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  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave over 1 year ago

    I quite like the Atmel Xplained evaluation kits. This was perhaps influenced somewhat by the educational content that Atmel ran alongside them.

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