[sansbury]

If you're messing around with Arduino-type stuff, I highly recommend the Teensy 3.2 series of Arduino-compatible ARM-based boards. $20, 32 bits, 72MHz, and a lot more everything else. They work with the Arduino IDE and all the stock libraries, but have a lot more power for things that require math, so great for interfacing with motors, touchscreens, etc.

[pickled]

If you're messing around with Arduino-type stuff, I highly recommend the Teensy 3.2 series of Arduino-compatible ARM-based boards. $20, 32 bits, 72MHz, and a lot more everything else. They work with the Arduino IDE and all the stock libraries, but have a lot more power for things that require math, so great for interfacing with motors, touchscreens, etc.

Thanks for the tip. I'll have to see if Santa will get me a couple to use for a few projects that are definitely tasking my el cheap-o SainSmart UNO clones :-). Speaking of performance for the $. I've been working on wrapping up a few projects that I wanted real time graphing and remote viewing on the cheap. I have integrated the Raspberry Pi 3...that's a cool platform too :-) if you have different needs.

[kstrauss]

Unfortunately Teensy support lags new releases of the Arduino IDE by a while and you can't plug normal "shields" on top of their tiny board. But definitely more bang for the buck. The Feather boards from Adafruit also seem attractive.

[petenc]

If you're messing around with Arduino-type stuff, I highly recommend the Teensy 3.2 series of Arduino-compatible ARM-based boards. $20, 32 bits, 72MHz, and a lot more everything else. They work with the Arduino IDE and all the stock libraries, but have a lot more power for things that require math, so great for interfacing with motors, touchscreens, etc.

I encourage that as well.... the Teensy LC is $13 I think and does everything I want it to, plus it has more hardware features such as more interrupts.