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The Untold History of Arduino (2016)

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Re: The Untold History of Arduino (2016)

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And this is why I buy Chinese made clones of Arduino.

I don't even bother with Arduino clones. You can get much better for less money.

E.g. in the UK on Amazon an Arduino Uno R3 is £39.99 and a clone with excellent reviews is £6.99.

For £5 I can get an ESP8266 on a NodeMCU board - these have more GPIO, much faster CPU, WiFi, drop nicely in to a breadboard, etc. They work with the Arduino IDE with only a tiny bit of configuration.

For not much more there's an ESP-32 which adds, among other things, a faster dual-core CPU and Bluetooth.

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