“This is a wonderful little board - powerful, easy to use, easy to upgrade and great fun to use. The makers provide plenty of advice, documentation and projects on their website. Soldering on the legs is very easy, so don't let that put you off.
I suggest you buy this M4 board, rather than the cheaper M0 version as it has much more memory for larger projects. The extensive driver library makes It very easy to drive small displays (SSD1306 and LCD characters) and other sensors.”
“This is a great little board, easy to set up and program using CircuitPython with the new Mu editor. It has much more memory than its smaller version, the ItsyBitsyM0, and a faster chip so I would suggest that for the slightly greater price you get a much more useful board.
You do have to solder on the provided pins but this is very easy.
The build quality is to Adafruit's usual high standard. They provide a great deal of online information on setting up and programming the board using CircuitPython and a wealth of drivers for electronic components is are available . (You could easily change this to Arduino IDE if you prefer.) Very good guides for beginners are easy to find on the website.
The built in Dotstar and easy ability to drive Neopixels is useful. It has built in analog to digital converters - a great advantage over a Pi Zero. I2C and SPI are supported.
These are cheap enough to embed in projects and make a great starting board for those new to physical computing.”
“Brilliant, tiny little board that runs circuit python and there's enough speed, power and i/o pin connectivity for loads of small projects. The price is pretty good too!”
“They flew to the Moon with less computing power than this, and now for less than fifteen quid you can use this vast advance in technology as a base to light up 60,000 Neopixels, power servos, or make a fart detector. Probably don't use it to go to the Moon though (for health and safety reasons).”
