Throughout this entire workshop, we've been looking at examples of using the Arduino UNO. All of the mini projects have been using the capabilities of the UNO, but the beauty of Arduino is that there is a plethora of Arduino and Arduino compatible boards out there. So I thought it would be good to mention some standouts, boards which have an incredible uniqueness to them for different projects.

The first board is the Arduino DUE. If you're after an official Arduino board which has plenty of horsepower and I-O pins to get the job done, then the DUE is for you. It's a 32-bit microcontroller clocking in at 84MHz, bear in mind that the Arduino UNO is 16MHz, so a big jump in clock speed. And with the expanded pin layout, it can tackle more advanced projects thanks to its ARM Cortex architecture. The only downside is that it's a 3.3V board, which means that you have to be more careful when using a 5V Arduino and logic level converters may be required to integrate it with your existing hardware. Having said that, most boards now are 3.3V, it's even 3.3V is starting to look as old as 5V once did with 1.8V, as low as that being the norm for a lot of integrated circuit projects.

The next mention is the line of Teensy boards. Teensy is a fantastic ARM Cortex based microcontroller platform, a board which was created by Paul Stoffrigen as a compact Arduino compatible board with the power to create any project. The new Teensy 3.6 clocks in at 180MHz, which is huge. It's also a 3.3V only board, so be careful.

The third honorable listing is Adafruit Circuit Playground. It's got an 18MHz 32U4 on board, which gives it native USB capabilities. It has NeoPixels around the edge, sound sensors, accelerometer and heaps more. All in a really compact circular board, so it's perfect for wearables, classroom projects or if you're after something to put your newfound coding skills to the test, without worrying about all of the hardware connections, it is a fantastic place to start.

And last but not least is the Particle Photon, which is a WiFi enabled board and the Electron, but again from Particle, it's older brother which is a 3G connected board. While not Arduino compatible boards, they don't work with the Arduino IDE. These boards use Particle's cloud based IDE, which shares the wiring programming abstraction, which allows code to be ported almost line for line between Arduino and Particle. Because of their incredible WiFi and 3G connectivity options, getting stuck into IOT projects has never been easier and the Particle boards personally are one of my favourite platforms, especially seeing as almost all of the really commonly and regularly used Arduino libraries have been ported over to the Particle platform, so it's really easy to get started if you're the slightest bit familiar with Arduino.

You can find specific tutorials and information on all of these platforms on the tutorial section of our website, and that brings us to the conclusion of the Arduino workshop. We'll constantly of course be adding in extra sections and bits and pieces, making things as great as we possibly can, but it's been a fantastic adventure creating this Arduino workshop and going on it with you guys, so I hope you've got something out of it and that you really enjoy it. Be sure to share it with a friend if you've got someone in mind who you think would love to get stuck into programming, and I'll see you on any future videos.