I love the teensy 3.0. It's tiny, powerful, easy and cheap. I use it for every project, even ones that do not need all the power and features because, well, why not?
However, recently I have started to out grow the Teensy 3.0. I am doing projects that, for example use graphical displays and the Teensy, despite having the horsepower, just does not have the RAM or flash space (mostly the RAM) for this. I have gotten around these issues with some creative coding and even though this is fun to figure out, it's a lot of extra work. I have started looking around the market for a more powerful platform, or at least one with more RAM and flash and I have found a couple such as TI's Stellaris boards but TI is terrible at documentation and I've spent hours trying to get even "hello world" compiled and installed (this was not helped by the fact all there tools run on "winblows" while I run Mac). It seems that the next step up is something like a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone which is way more power than I usually need, not to mention all the unneeded complexity and instability that comes with an fully blown OS.
What I am interested in is knowing if I am not alone here. Are there others that crave a board that fits between the Teensy 3.0 and Raspberry Pi? My dream platform would be a 32-bit ARM running at about 120MHz, about the same size as the Teensy boards and have at least 256KB or better yet, 512KB or 1MB of flash and at least 32K, preferably 64K or 128K of RAM and have the option for easily adding ethernet.
Paul, are you thinking about a Teensy 4.0? If so, you've got the specs...
However, recently I have started to out grow the Teensy 3.0. I am doing projects that, for example use graphical displays and the Teensy, despite having the horsepower, just does not have the RAM or flash space (mostly the RAM) for this. I have gotten around these issues with some creative coding and even though this is fun to figure out, it's a lot of extra work. I have started looking around the market for a more powerful platform, or at least one with more RAM and flash and I have found a couple such as TI's Stellaris boards but TI is terrible at documentation and I've spent hours trying to get even "hello world" compiled and installed (this was not helped by the fact all there tools run on "winblows" while I run Mac). It seems that the next step up is something like a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone which is way more power than I usually need, not to mention all the unneeded complexity and instability that comes with an fully blown OS.
What I am interested in is knowing if I am not alone here. Are there others that crave a board that fits between the Teensy 3.0 and Raspberry Pi? My dream platform would be a 32-bit ARM running at about 120MHz, about the same size as the Teensy boards and have at least 256KB or better yet, 512KB or 1MB of flash and at least 32K, preferably 64K or 128K of RAM and have the option for easily adding ethernet.
Paul, are you thinking about a Teensy 4.0? If so, you've got the specs...