Microcontrollers and development boards

An innovative collaboration between the BBC and its partners aimed at developing IT learning and programming, the micro:bit is a small computer embedding a single board. One million of them have been distributed since their release in summer 2015, and it should not end there!

Seeed Studio and MediaTek have teamed together to produce a little gem: the LinkIt ONE board. Compatible with both Arduino and Grove and equipped with GSM, GPRS, WiFi, Bluetooth BR/EDR/BLE, GPS and audio functions, we highly recommend it for all your IoT and wearables projects.

The SparkFun PicoBoard kit offers an original and fun learning approach to electronic programming, simply connect various sensors to your PicoBoard and carry out your own experiments using the Scratch programming language!

Released in November 2014, the Raspberry Pi A+ board is advertised as being a new and improved, ultra-compact version of the Raspberry Pi A, ideal for your embedded electronics projects.

The Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout Kit is a complete development kit including the new Intel® Edison platform and the Arduino Breakout Board, which provides an efficient interface for linking your Intel® Edison board to its Arduino-compatible hardware.

The Arduino UNO SMD board is based on an ATMega 328. The Arduino UNO SMD board is the main board chosen by the hobbyists and the beginners!

The Arduino Mega ADK board is based on an ATMega 2560. Compared to an Arduino Mega 2560, the Arduino Mega ADK has a USB host interface to connect with Android based phones. It is the last version (revision 3) of this board.

The Arduino Yun board is a clever product which that incorporates the features of a standard Arduino Leonardo, a section with additional hardware, with a separate processor can accommodate a full GNU / Linux release (OpenWRT) that is specifically intended for internet connectivity. 

At first glance, the LilyPad Arduino USB board may surprise you with its neat, feminine look: that’s because it’s ideally suited to electronic clothing and e-textile projects. It is sewn directly onto a piece of fabric, while its supply, sensors, and actuators are connected up using conductive thread embroidery! Thanks to its use of an ATmega32u4...

The Arduino-Compatible Flora Wearable Sensor will open the doors to a whole new world of connected, wearable electronics: a true little marvel, by Adafruit!

Discover a new way to learn how to program Arduino with the Arduino Esplora. This new Arduino board comes with a lot of amazing embedded sensors.

The Mini 05 from Arduino is mini only in name: more powerful, more ergonomic – yet just as simple to use as the last version!

Ultra-compatible, easy to use, designed for rapid programming and quick creations, the DFR0225 Romeo V2 board has more than one trick up its sleeve!

This Arduino Nano 3.0 board is based on the ATmega328 microcontroller. This Arduino board is breadboard-friendly.

The Arduino Leonardo board is the newest board from Arduino. It is based on the ATmega32u4 microcontroller.

The Arduino Mega 2560, which replaced the Arduino Mega board, has now been upgraded for a third time to make it both more powerful and easier to use for your electronics and robotics projects!

This 3rd generation of the famous Uno prototyping and learning platform – the Arduino model of reference – offers all the advantages of the Duemilanove while adding some useful updates of its own, notably concerning its interface hardware.

The Arduino Due is the first Arduino board that is based on an ARM Cortex-M3 CPU which makes the Arduino Due the most powerful Arduino board.

A single Arduino board that integrates the ATMEGA328 Uno microcontroller with the ETH Ethernet shield and a POE module.

Ever heard of CheapDuino? It’s quite simply the cheapest Arduino-compatible processor in the world (hence it’s name)! Sold here in packs of 5 with its USB cable, it offers you 5 times the possibilities for your electronics projects.

Powerful and ultra-fast, the new OpenCL-compatible Odroid XU4 board offers a storage system and a simply stunning Ethernet connection!

Need a boost for your Odroid XU4 board? The 8 GB ODROID-XU3/XU4 eMMC Module should do the job no problem!

To celebrate its 4th birthday, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is releasing the Raspberry Pi 3! It’s 50% more powerful than the previous version, but above all comes already equipped with WiFi and Bluetooth! It's also compatible with the Pi2 accessories.

If you’re looking for a tiny development board with a 32-bit USB microcontroller to get you rapidly started with the C programming language, then you’ve found it: the Teensy 3.1!