Alexandre Pailhoux is passionate about STEM education and electronics engineering. I came across his YouTube channel when he built a single board synthesizer, and he’s been doing Arduino tutorials to teach people programming and electronics for a few years. Over time Alex wondered why the Arduino platform hadn’t brought in any huge innovations over its decade long existence, and then started to think of ways he could build his own platform. He started to develop DevDuino and is currently running a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.
DevDuino has a 1.3 x 1 inch OLED display, a wi-fi / Bluetooth port, a micro-SD slot, real time clock, temperature sensor, and is breadboard compatible. Several LEDs are included along with a power switch and an interruption button. The controller is an ATmega32U4 8-bit microcontroller from Atmel. The kit offered through Kickstarter comes with the DevDuino board, DT-06 wi-fi module, HC-06 Bluetooth module, 1 Gigabyte micro-SD card, an 830 point breadboard, a 3 Volt CR1220 battery and a micro-USB cable.
Several application examples are included on the campaign page, including a game controller, interactive app controlling lights on a breadboard, and a robot that displays collision avoidance. A library of prebuilt programs and projects is also said to be available but a thirty second google search wasn’t enough time for me to find it in the French-to-English translated https://www.les-electroniciens.com/.
DevDuino is an awesome tool for people interested in embedded electronics and single board computing projects. There are definitely more features and abilities here than on a standard Arduino board but the price point is also much higher. For me the best part of tools like this are seeing the projects that users come up with in the first year or so of development, so the DevDuino is worth taking another look at in 2018. The successful campaign will end on December 1, 2017 and first units are expected to ship during the month of December.