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by pzo 1069 days ago
But considering competition wouldn't Microbit be a better fit both for kids and even for students? Price is 10 GBP but you get also accelerometer, compass, 5x5 led array, 2x push buttons, 1x touch button, microphone, speaker, bluetooth le. You can power it with USB, AA battery pack or CR2032.

You can program in scratch, javascript, python and even c++. You can even change firmware to Zephyr RTOS if you want to do some low level stuff.

On top of that you have big ecosystem of extension boards or even robot kit. And tons of open source projects
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ostenning 1069 days ago
> You can even change firmware to Zephyr RTOS if you want to do some low level stuff.

Zephyr (for me at least) felt quite bloated and abstracted away, probably because they need to support so many different SoCs. Albeit my experience is with the Nordic nRF downstream version of Zephyr.. The use of device-tree plus inconsistencies with the nordic api's certainly didn't help.

My experience with ESP-IDF + freeRTOS has been much more straight forward and felt much more nimble.

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pjmlp 1069 days ago
It would an alternative yes, we don't need CPU monoculture.
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