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Need advice on advancing from Arduino boards and next steps

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MarkCrabs

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Hello Everyone,

After many projects with my arduino uno and mega, I think I am ready to move on to more advanced embedded systems programming with C/C++, such as with Arm cortex based microcontrollers. With the rising popularity of iot applications, I would also like to dip my toes into WiFi and seeing what can be done with it.
I would like to check in with someone experienced in this area to make sure I am going about this the right way.
Going through this wikipedia list, I found out about the RTL8195 dev board from realtek's amebaiot lineup. The boards support wifi and nfc, and are also arduino compatible (which is as plus as i can reuse some of my old expansion boards). Programming can be done in both the arduino IDE or regular C/C++, which should help me get started from a familiar environment. There are also several code examples provided on the official website and video guides posted on youtube channel.

To me, this seems to be a capable platform to move on to. Does anyone have experience with this board? What other aspects should I consider? I would like to learn from how others made progress in their embedded development skills.
Thanks for reading, and I appreciate all suggestions and recommendations.

-Mark
 

Cirkit

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If you want to build WiFi and IoT projects but program in C, have a look at the ESP32 platform.

There are plenty of IoT examples online.
 

Harald Kapp

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Truly good advice. The ESP32 is really easy to work with. Lots of libraries and support online available.

Currently I'm waiting for the W600-pico to become available again. Irresistibly cheap and programmable in MicroPython.
 

dpuklicz

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Check out nodemcu on google and amazon. Basically Arduino with wifi. Program it with Arduino as well.
 
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