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I caught myself to have ordered many Arduino-like, Chinese, develop boards.
These are very cheap and they are very compatible with the Arduino software AND with Flowcode.

But these boards are old-school hardware.
I have the Flowcode 16 bit PIC license, the AVR and the RPI license.

Is there a cheap develop board that I can buy using one of these licenses?
The Arduino (nano) clone is about 2€ a piece at the Chinese webshops.

What is there that has somewhat more power but isn't that much expensive?
Maybe this sounds like me being cheap, but these boards, if I do something wrong they are thrown in the bin faster than I can order them.
And believe me, I do things wrong from time to time

Hello,

ESP32 is coming soon in the next version of FC, these again are very cheap to buy and are very powerful.

Otherwise RPi is a good option but not quite so low cost. There are some STM32 boards available for a very low price.

If you see anything else that you would like to see supported then please let us know.

Thank you BenJ!

The ESP32 would be great as a supported chip, but this is 4 years old already.

Do you have an idea when it will be supported in FC8?
The STM32 boards, I'm going to check these out.

Any more suggestions?

Hello
For stm32 I am currently using the chip STM32F030RC with 256K. You can find china pcbs for less than € 2.
This chip represents the economic line of ST but has discrete performance.

If you want something more powerful you can move on the F4 line.
For example STM32F411CE with 512K and excellent performance.You can find china pcbs for less than € 4.

If you use stm32, I suggest you try the -o3 or -ofast setting for compilation because it significantly improves performance.

Alkaline wrote:Hello
For stm32 I am currently using the chip STM32F030RC with 256K. You can find china pcbs for less than € 2.
This chip represents the economic line of ST but has discrete performance.

If you want something more powerful you can move on the F4 line.
For example STM32F411CE with 512K and excellent performance.You can find china pcbs for less than € 4.

If you use stm32, I suggest you try the -o3 or -ofast setting for compilation because it significantly improves performance.

Thanks for your suggestion.
I think I'm going to wait until the ESP32 device is deployed.
If I want to use the ARM, I need to buy this pack only for this device.
I hope the ESP32 Flowcode comes with a reasonable price tag.

I will wait until that moment to decide.

esp32 is an extremely powerful card for the low price it is sold for.
It's true he's 4 years old but I'm absolutely nothing compared to what he can still do.

I believe that with a complete support of flowocode it is possible to realize interesting projects at a very low cost.

If I can give a suggestion to the flowocode team to think about how to enable the various energy saving modes that allow for very low consumption, ideal for iot applications

Thank you, the ESP32 is a nice replacement for Arduino.

But, I'll wait until the device is supported by Flowcode before I purchase some ESP32 boards.
I hope the device can be used with all of its functions.