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by ohazi 1179 days ago
What's up with the yellow rectangle?
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Caught my eye too. Looks like they're hiding part of the board design?
From the link:

  > The board provides a CAN bus, which allows users to minimize wiring and execute different tasks in parallel by connecting multiple shields. 
From [0]:

  > The Renesas RA4M1 group of micrcontrollers (MCUs) uses the high-performance Arm® Cortex®-M4 core and offers a segment LCD controller and a capacitive touch sensing unit input for intensive HMI designs. 
Maybe a CAN bus connector, or finally a builtin user interface, if it's not just a power circuit? Built-in LCD/OLED, buttons, basic shell casing and end-user usable expansion connectors are growing trends among China/Shenzhen originating platforms like M5Stack. Arduino is still relying on hacky solutions for UI, which might be less appealing for casual users.

0: https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/microcontrollers-micr...