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

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

-element14 Community

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Jan Cumps over 2 years ago in reply to javagoza

Yes. i'm a TI fanboy. They virtually retreated from all communities
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shabaz over 2 years ago in reply to BigG

I've got a ton of Mbed code written over the years, just sitting idle on the cloud hehe. I'll have to make use of that sometime.

I'd forgotten about Arduino with Mbed support. I like the normal Pi Pico C/C++ SDK a lot though, so tend to use that. Although excellent, it did catch me out recently, when a sleep_us operation didn't work within a timer interrupt and just hangs there! Kind of obvious there was a risk of that (I had mistakenly assumed it would implement it as a no-op loop for small values) and I should have checked the documentation! Anyway, the solution (in case anyone else hit this) is to replace with busy_wait_us(). Aside from that hiccup, which was more my fault than anything else, the SDK has great.
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Jan Cumps over 2 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

The BB was a reference design. Made by TI staff for a TI chipset to be a low cost board. Derived from a more expensive reference design.

I think it also explains why the BB, leading the maker community early on,

fails as a community item now that TI's heart isn't with the community anymore. Staff needs to focus on what the company wants.

Not a lot of the BB software and documentation revisions were delivered by non-staffers after the early boom.
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ronald01 over 1 year ago

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baldengineer over 1 year ago in reply to ronald01

Is this a ChatGPT response to a 2 month old thread?
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meera_hussien over 1 year ago

I have worked on Arduino Uno, Raspberry Pi, ESP32.
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Lone847 over 1 year ago

Im presently on a rasberry pi 4b and arduino r4 its pretty convenant for my robotics projects
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gpolder over 1 year ago in reply to taifur

same here, and to be precise, all flavours of Raspberry Pi, and Arduino, including ESP32, Teensy etc. Per project it depends on computing power and interfacing needs.
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Fred27 over 1 year ago

If I need a Linux SBC, I tend to go for either the Pi or BeagleBone.

For a microntroller, I used to default to TI's range, but am probably more likely to use Nordic or Pico these days. I have tried STM32, NXP and Cypress but these seem to have fallen by the wayside. There's absolutely nothing wrong with them, there's just a limit to how many toolchains and devices I can be bothered learning and staying familiar with.

For FPGAs I decided to go with AMD (well... Xilinx last time I used them) but to be honest I've not had a great need to do much with them.
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colporteur over 1 year ago in reply to Fred27

No Arduino's in your lineup?
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