On: Reverse Engineering All the Raspberry Pis

[IshKebab]

The competition for "very hard to beat for the money" hasn't been Arduinos for decades; it's cheap ARM Cortex boards, e.g. STM32 Nucleo - or ESP32.

I think ESP32 is really the one to beat.

Arduino have been lazily cashing in on their brand name for many years.

[StableAlkyne → IshKebab]

Is there a good comparison site anywhere for boards nowadays?

I still usually gravitate to the Pi or Arduino, but mostly due to a combination of lack of familiarity with other brands, and being a repeat customer for stuff that just works

[IshKebab → StableAlkyne]

I don't think so. Mbed used to have a nice one for all the boards that support Mbed, but that's dead now.

Looks like Zephyr has an extremely comprehensive list: https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/boards/index.html

Doesn't include prices though, and it's really too comprehensive - it seems to include lots of boards you can't actually buy. So maybe not very useful for finding good boards.

[arjvik → IshKebab]

What’s a “good” RiscV board to start using for small projects?

Looking for a successor to the RPi - good documentation, easy to write bare metal for (no SDK), no surprises.

[Xymist → arjvik]

ESP32-C6, and associated dev boards.