Apart from understanding the Arduino's code language, one of the most confusing parts about the platform — especially for beginners — is picking the right board to use in a project.

Arduino sent over one of the first boards ... There are a bunch of parts on a board and some way to connect them with wires. Put the wires one way and you have a radio. Put them another way ...

In total, there are over 700,000 variants of the Arduino board available globally. Making custom models of the Raspberry Pi is significantly harder, however, as parts of its hardware are not open ...

The Sno (pronounced like “snow”) board is a tiny footprint Arduino board that you can see in the video below. By itself that isn’t that interesting, but the Sno also has an Altera/Intel Max ...