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freeload · 05-24-2011, 12:37 AM

I went for the Teensy 2.0 board. It's sort of an arduino clone, but cheaper and with more memory. The reasons I went for something other than original Arduino boards is price - only $16 (frugal bastard) and the small size like Arduino Nano - not available at the time I bought in. For a total of $31 I got the Teensy 2.0 with header pins, breadboard, and the tutorial kit.

Teensy USB Development Board

A good reason for choosing Arduino is all the expansion shields. Just stak'em up, code a little and you've got a working prototype.

If money is tight, check out iStore, Make Innovation Easier - they are quite cheap and have a lot of parts, shields and some arduino "clones" (They aren't technically clones as the Arduino design is open source)

There's also a lot of parts to be found on eBay.

05-24-2011, 12:37 AM	#3 (permalink)
freeload Done freeloading here Location: on my ass :) - Norway	I went for the Teensy 2.0 board. It's sort of an arduino clone, but cheaper and with more memory. The reasons I went for something other than original Arduino boards is price - only $16 (frugal bastard) and the small size like Arduino Nano - not available at the time I bought in. For a total of $31 I got the Teensy 2.0 with header pins, breadboard, and the tutorial kit. Teensy USB Development Board A good reason for choosing Arduino is all the expansion shields. Just stak'em up, code a little and you've got a working prototype. If money is tight, check out iStore, Make Innovation Easier - they are quite cheap and have a lot of parts, shields and some arduino "clones" (They aren't technically clones as the Arduino design is open source) There's also a lot of parts to be found on eBay. __________________ The future ain't what it used to be.