April 24, 2017

Particle Photon (and others)

I have two "Particle Photon" boards sitting around gathering dust. I bought these from Sparkfun in July of 2016. These have an ARM Cortex M3 running at 120 Mhz along with a Broadcom Wifi chip. 1M of flash, 128K of ram. They cost $19 each.

In early 2018, three new boards were announced (the Xenon, Argon, and Boron). These have an ARM Cortex M4F (based on a Nordic nRF52840 SoC) which also has Bluetooth 5 and NFC. They have 1M of flash and 256K of ram. They run at 64 Mhz. The Argon interests me the most (insofar as these interest me at all) and includes an ESP32 to get Wifi for $15

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