Boards are Back! 2023 Dev Boards in Review
Maker Faire Bay Area 2023
October 13th-22nd
2023 has been an exciting year for makers, with supply chain issues giving way to new flagships from Arduino and Raspberry Pi, in the form of the UNO R4 and Pi 5 respectively. We'll take a look at our favorites from the 2024 Boards Guide with Editor David "ishotjr" Groom and hear about how almost 200 dev boards were whittled down to 14 New & Notables, from beast to bijou, homunculus to hybrid, during the editorial process.
David Groom
David bought his first Arduino in 2007 as part of a Roomba hacking project. Since then, he has been obsessed with writing code that you can touch. David fell in love with the original Pebble smartwatch, and even more so with its successor, which allowed him to combine the beloved wearable with his passion for hardware hacking via its smartstrap functionality. Unable to part with his smartwatch sweetheart, David wrote a love letter to the Pebble community, which blossomed into Rebble, the service that keeps Pebbles ticking today, despite the company's demise in 2016. When he's not hacking on wearables, David can probably be found building a companion bot, experimenting with machine learning, growing his ever-increasing collection of dev boards, or hacking on DOS-based palmtops from the 90s. Find David on Mastodon at @ishotjr@chaos.social and to a far lesser extent on Twitter at @IShJR.
