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Small form-factor microcontroller board families

Which of the following board types / eco-systems do you think has the largest exposure and has been used in real projects the most?

 

This is about form factors smaller than the standard Arduino Uno format. I am thinking about new shields and want to put a second connector option on there to make it more flexible. It is going to be a display function, so I am not really interested in the higher power computer modules like RaspberryPi and such which already have video output.

 

- Wolfgang.

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  • The most popular will use the Arduino IDE.

    I think it will boil down to price and availability between the new Nano, MKR and Feather.

    I suspect the MKR will see more cloning in the short term that will make it the lowest cost and highest volume platform.

    Keep an eye on which platform gets the most cloning uptake....

  • in reply to dougw

    Thanks for your input, Doug.

    The cloning is a very good indicator.

    Any particular reason, why the MKR cloning should pick up in the short term. It is on the market for quite some time already but did not pick up much traction from what I have seen.

     

    - W.

  • in reply to wolfgangfriedrich

    I think the Arduino brand commands a much larger market than Adafruit Feather at this time and is a more attractive target for cloning, partly because of that and partly because the they have priced the MKR series more proportional to MCU capability within the Arduino family than cost of manufacturing. So there is more margin available to lure buyers away from the name brand. They could possibly be lower cost than an Uno, but that would erode their Uno sales. Just my opinion - your mileage may vary.

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    I think the Arduino brand commands a much larger market than Adafruit Feather at this time and is a more attractive target for cloning, partly because of that and partly because the they have priced the MKR series more proportional to MCU capability within the Arduino family than cost of manufacturing. So there is more margin available to lure buyers away from the name brand. They could possibly be lower cost than an Uno, but that would erode their Uno sales. Just my opinion - your mileage may vary.

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