Best IoT boards Other than Arduino

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Over the last few months the market is flooded with new micro-controller boards. Here are 3 best and cheap IoT boards other than Arduino.

THE C.H.I.P.


Its the Cheapest IoT board you can get in the market starting at just  $ 9 .It is one of the smallest yet powerful board which does some serious work like your mainframe computer. The C.H.I.P. used with Gnumeric can create AbiWord or spreadsheets to word process. It has the ability to open the Excel and Word documents that already exists.You can browse plays games and perform IoT projects which all comes from a good spec sheet.

Specifications Of C.H.I.P.
  • Built-in WiFi B/G/N,
  • 1GHz C.H.I.P.'s R8 processor, 
  • 4GB of High-speed on board storage,
  • 512MB of RAM,
  • Bluetooth 4.0 
  •  it works with any display 
In a nutshell the C.H.I.P. is a $9 computer which is smaller than a size of a banana.

TESPA

TESPA is one of the most easy to use Internet of Things (IoT) development platform. It is Arduino-compatible, built-in wifi  and  cloud service ready that makes Internet of things in 10 minutes.It doesn't require much knowledge of coding for making IOT devices.



SPECIFICATIONS OF TESPA HAWK

  • 80MHz ESP8266 Wifi Chip , 8MB Flash
  • STM32F042G6 ARM Cortex-M0 48MHz, 32KB Flash
  • Build-in USB to serial
  • All the ESP8266 pins are accessable
  • Total 5-CH full range 3.3V ADC
  •  RGB status LED
  • Automatic program upload functionality, no need to manualy press the button
  • Supply voltage: 3.3V-16V (on-board 5V and 3.3V regulator with auto-select)
In all it is a pretty good package for beginners.

Marvell ESPRESSOBin Board


ESPRESSOBin Board  is a bugdet  performance beast ARM based 64 bit single board computer determined at the networking, storage, and connectivity space. It employs Marvell's latest 3700 Armada chipset which is a dual core SOC clocked at 1.2 Ghz based upon the ARM A53 64 bit instruction set.

                                                                                                                                                            
ESPRESSObin Specification

  •  Performance is covered by a  Dual Core 64bit ARM A53 Armada 3700 SOC clocked up to 1.2Ghz 
  • 1x Topaz Networking Switch
  • 1x uSD card slot with footprint for an optional 4GB EMMC
  • 512MB DDR3, 1GB DDR3 & 2GB DDR3 options
  • 2x high speed  Gb Ethernet LAN
  • 1x  Ethernet WAN
  • 1x SATA interface for HDD storage
  • 1x USB 3.0 and 1x USB 2.0
  • 1x MiniPCIe for Wireless/BLE peripherals
  • 2x Row of GPIO headers for accessories and shields
Specification wise the ESPRESSOBin Board can easily give a good competition to the Raspberry Pi , moreover its a beast with powerful set of Networking & Storage interfaces such as a dedicated networking Switch and Gigabit WAN & LAN. It is a better recourse for somebody who is looking for low power consuming networking computing platform.




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