Azduino by Spence Konde

2,333 orders since Jun 01, 2015

somerville, MA, United States of America

Ships from United States of America.

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Average Ratings

Product: (4.75)

Documentation: (4.46)

Shipping: (4.67)

Communication: (4.67)

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Richard | March 18, 2024

Overall very good. Never sure of what docs apply

For ATtiny412/402 dev board, Arduino compatible

First time using the newer AVR parts. Sch did not match. Was not sure if my programmer would just work. Wanted to just prove these could serve as a OneWire DS temp sensor bus driver/coproc for a larger Arm M4 based system. Took a while to understand and to get my old Atmel-ICE into play. This, with the new OneWire library you guys provided on GitHub, made the project work - with less than 100 bytes left in flash! My guess is that you guys made the exact scenario work in your OneWire work.

Thanks,

Rich

Sohier | July 7, 2023

Great Wemos D1 mini proto boards

For Prototyping Shield for WeMos D1 Mini (3/pk)

These are a huge time saver, in the past I've used standard d1 mini perf boards for prototyping, but the breadboard style of these makes for a much tidier, quicker and more reliable end product. Can't wait to use it! Dealing with Azduino has been great too!

Sohier | July 7, 2023

Tiny and Awesome Board

For Easy touch proximity sensor (assembled)

This is by far the smallest touch sensor I've seen, and its adjustable! I'm building an art display for home assistant and this is the perfect touch input device, you can't get smaller and cleaner than this. Spence is also great to deal with, friendly and helpful.

Robert | May 13, 2023

Handy Little Breakout Board for the New ATtiny412

For ATtiny412/402 dev board, Arduino compatible

I am porting a project originally done with a PIKAXE and need a platform to breadboard the other components on. It has 2 hobby servos, 2 switches and an LED which comes on the board, so this fit the bill perfectly. The Arduino library he wrote Just Worked (tm) and exposes lots of hardware options that I plan to explore on this and future projects

I also wanted to try using UPDI programming. That took a little fiddling to get working with the "USB to Serial USB to TTL CH340 Module" from HiLetgo and a BAT54C Schottkey diode wire according to instructions on the github link, but it all worked great in the end.

My only suggestion would be to replace the photos and schematics here with the current Rev B boards or put them in a separate document

Bradley | April 13, 2023

Great deal, all as advertised

For Mini protoboard pieces - 28 pcs set only $6!

Got exactly what was advertised. Very happy with this purchase as I was looking for a few of the pieces included for a project.

Don | Nov. 3, 2022

Bad Experience. Poor Quality.

For 2" x 4" ESP8266/ESP32 protoboard w/ESP mounted

Had to Email more than a week after ordering to even get product shipped. 2 boards, both arrived with solder drops in random places, 1 board arrived with out the capacitors installed for the voltage regulator. Emailed seller again. Still no response. Bottom line the product is a great idea, but the seller is not paying attention to his business, he is not paying attention to the quality of what is shipped or when, and he doesn't respond properly. Other reviews confirm, the seller always has an excuse for why he is failing to respond. So SAD! Will be filling a dispute with the Credit Card company to get a refund, so BAD EXPERIENCE sums it up!!!!!

Response from Azduino by Spence Konde | Jan. 1, 2023

It was a pretty bad selling experience too - I think my worst. The whole thing happened during an intensely busy week - Buyer said they wished to return the boards for a refund... citing problems which were largely cosmetic, plus one case where it appeared that they had removed two capacitors to make the board appear defective. The attitude they gave me was most definitely the worst I've gotten from a Tindie customer in over five years of business. Before I had even had a chance to respond to their email, they had escalated the issue with Tindie twice (As I said, it was an exceptionally busy week... and when you get such an aggressive email it takes some time to figure out what to say). Tindie gave them the refund and they said they would send the boards back, and I consented to the return and refund.

As I expected, customer vanished the instant he had his refund - Tindie didn't wait for any evidence that they'd made any moves towards returning the boards. Maybe they realized that the boards were just fine, and having gotten their refund, decided they didn't want to return the boards after all. Maybe they are lazy and dishonest, and just didn't bother. In any event, he came out of the whole thing with two free boards, while I was out the cost of 2 boards, shipping, and now have a slanderous 1-star review.

Michael | June 30, 2022

So much better than any board I've used before

For Bare boards (various)

This is my first experience using PCBs outside of the mass online suppliers. I have been burning up those "400w 15A mosfet boards" that have become very popular and decided to try something else. Immediately you can feel the difference - these boards make the ones I've been using seem like paper. These are SOLID. They have weight to them with more copper than I ever expected. Clear labels I can read without a magnifying glass. The quality is outstanding and the price is lower than I ever expected - wish I started using these sooner and can't wait to try out the esp32 proto boards.

The MOSFET guide created by the store is *SO* helpful. A crazy amount of valuable information perfectly delivered. Most resellers won't even tell you the model numbers in their board, while this guide was a recipe on how to build your own successfully.

William | June 9, 2022

driving LED strip with Raspberry Pi Pico

For 4-Channel MOSFET board with optional driver

I ordered a board with the Transistor: DMT10H010LPS (100Vds, 4.5Vgs) with gate driver option.
I'm using it to drive a dual color temperature 24V LED strip at 20Khz with a Raspberry Pi Pico.
Seems to be working well. Probably overkill for my application.

One minor issue with the board is that the silkscreen numbers of the signal pins are in the wrong order on the reverse side of the board.
I didn't catch that when I was first soldering things together.

Steve | May 11, 2022

Great boards!

For ATtiny3227/3217/1607 dev board, Arduino compatible

Bought two of these both with boot loaders and auto reset. One 3217 and one 3227. Great documentation available and worked exactly as expected with the Arduino IDE. Cool project and lots of fun. Thank you!

Dann | Feb. 5, 2022

Sweet little AVR-DA dev boards, and ~incredible~ support!

For AVR128DA development board - Arduino compatible!

Note: I have revised my evaluation of the Documentation upward from 4-star to 5-star. After a bit of sober reflection, I decided I wasn't being quite fair because I've been "out of the game" for a few years now. Most customers for this product are probably current and active in Embedded and Arduino, and would have easily figured out the few things that puzzled me. Besides, the stellar, over the top support that Spence has provided has very effectively filled in any gaps that may exist in the docs, and observing how proactive Dr. Azzy is with maintaining and updating his software and products, I'm sure my stumbles will eventually end up in improvement in the docs as well... And now, for my story:

Thanks to government stupidity (shutting down and destroying the supply chain), I've had to launch a complete redesign of our flagship product's electronic PCB... I thought I was going to have to go with some weird import part, or (gag!) an Intel chip?

Late last year, I discovered there was a new Atmel series of parts out, and (better yet) there were even modest quantities in my target 32pin SMT package actually available to buy! So, I started looking around for a suitable development board. I wasn't thrilled with the Microchip dev board offering, but I found Dr. Azzy's sweet little boards here on Tindie. I ordered two right away, along with their color-coded pin sets.

While waiting for the boards to arrive, I contacted Spence with questions about his opinion of the viability of these parts (I had seen some scary comments about errata). His quick and comprehensive answers reassured me that I was on the right track, so I did a risk buy of the processors I'll need for my first build-out (before someone else could snap up the dwindling supply... thanks a bunch, Uncle Sam...).

The boards arrived quickly by Priority Mail; then life intervened, and I had a buncha other stuff to do. Well, this week I finally got a "round tuit" and started working with one of the boards. At first I just couldn't get it talking via the Arduino IDE. I suspected I was having problems with my Macbook Air M1 and FTDI driver latency...

Once again, Spence was quick as lightning to respond to my questions and issues via Tindie messaging. With his feedback and guidance, I got both of the boards up and operating, not only via the standard Arduino serial interface, but also via UPDI, a very sweet and fast serial programming option.

I can scarcely begin to tell you how pleased I am with this product, and even more so with the professionalism and strong and kind support of Spence Konde, the product developer. Between his fabulous and very detailed documentation, and his Johnny-on-the-Spot response to my cries for help, I have been blown away with the quality of his operation. You don't see enterprises this good every day...! My hat's off to Dr. Azzy and his entire operation! First Class all the way!

I will certainly be shopping here again and watching for new developments...

PRO TIP: Avoid the trouble I had - be sure to download and install the latest version of Dr. Azzy's “DxCore by Spence Konde” Arduino Board Manager Package here:
http://drazzy.com/package_drazzy.com_index.json

Peter | Jan. 27, 2022

This board supports Spence's DxCore (or vice versa)

For AVR128DA development board - Arduino compatible!

Documentation is monumental, considering he's supporting anyone with a AVR128DX. Buy his boards to support the DxCore library!

Arrived as fast as you can expect with USPS and was shipped promptly.

I soldered the FTDI header on there, plugged in my adapter and I was off. Board worked first time no problem (with Blink, I didn't give it anything fancy).

I'm giving him a 5 for comms, since even before I bought a board, he's been engaged with anyone asking questions on GitHub discussions.

https://github.com/SpenceKonde/DxCore

Mark | Oct. 28, 2021

Great dev board, amazing core, documentation exceptional!

For ATtiny3224/1614/1604 dev board Arduino compatible

I wanted to get started with the new(er) ATtiny 1-series and Spence (Dr. Azzy) had everything I needed! His "core" firmware is amazing, and the documentation is unrivaled - going beyond the core functions and deep into various chip features and bugs. His 1614 dev board was perfect for my initial breadboard protos, I ended up buying 3! Well made, thoughtful design and features. Thank you, Spence, for all you've done or the community!

José | Sept. 18, 2021

Excellent product for familiarization with AVR128 family

For AVR128DA development board - Arduino compatible!

Congrats to Spence Konde. Not only this board but also the library provided by the author for the Arduino IDE are nice resources that I am using to migrate a project from ATmega2560 to AVR128DA64.
As an improvement, I suggest replacing the silkscreen numerical sequence of pins (1, 2, etc) with the more meaningful port names (PA0, PA1, etc).
And I'm also looking forward to the inclusion of the DX family in the Visual Studio IDE which I personally prefer over the Arduino IDE.
My choice for the cheaper international shipping method was more expensive and a little longer than shopping from China, but they don't sell Azduino boards... ;-)

Jack | Sept. 15, 2021

Best prototype BB boards for the price

For ATTiny841/84 breakout w/serial header (bare board)

Developing an outdoor, totally automated Aquaponics system within a small greenhouse. Sun tracking solar panels, wind shear damped turbine generator and 3.5kw inverter. Multiple MCU attiny AVRs devices for sensor daq conditioning and measurements.

So, before having my final PCBs fabricated, the Tindie BBs were PERFECT for testing each sub-system. Very pleased with these low cost boards.
Jack

Hyeon Sik | March 15, 2021

Nice board. It's working.

For ATtiny3226/3216/1606 dev board, Arduino compatible

I tested LED blink example with my Pickit4 debugger yet. but It's a good breakout board. I will test for motor driver module.

James | March 8, 2021

Good quality breakouts

For Breakout boards for QFN/VQFN/MLF SMD parts

If you work with surface mount, I can recommend using these boards--and highly suggest adding them to an order from Azzy's. They are built with good quality and are designed well. Highly suggest you add them to

James | March 8, 2021

Good, but confusing

For AVR128DA development board - Arduino compatible!

The board is built well and I am glad to have the chip's pins well broken out. However, I found the mapping of pins on the board to the chip to DxCore highly lacking. There does not appear to be documentation that equates "Arduino pin 1" to a pin on the AVR128DA. I had to resort to looking at the arduino_pins.h file to find the mapping.

Response from Azduino by Spence Konde | March 8, 2021

Did you see the pinout chart? It's in the documentation, and there's a copy of it in the Tindie images shown at the top of the product listing
64-pin: https://github.com/SpenceKonde/DxCore/blob/master/megaavr/extras/DA64.md
48-pin: https://github.com/SpenceKonde/DxCore/blob/master/megaavr/extras/DA48.md
32-pin: https://github.com/SpenceKonde/DxCore/blob/master/megaavr/extras/DA32.md

Is there something unclear about those, or is there something I could do to improve this?
Thanks

Kurt | Feb. 17, 2021

A great way to try surface mount assembly!

For ATtiny3216/similar breakout board (bare board)

These were my first adventure in surface mount components back in March 2020 and they make great little micro-controller units fo all sorts of projects. Documentation available through the product page gives components and setup/programming information. If you have not done through hole soldering you may not be ready for these. This was my second order, very pleased.

Jonathon | Jan. 11, 2021

Good product, fast shipping

For Mini protoboard pieces - 28 pcs set only $6!

High quality proto-boards. The ones I received have blue solder mask and look to have a HASL finish. I would buy these again.

Julian | Jan. 6, 2021

very nice little board ATtiny412

For ATtiny412/402 dev board, Arduino compatible

The ATtiny412 UPDI board is great for getting started with the new ATtiny series microcontrollers. I had a little hickup during the UPDI programmer setup but Spence helped figure it out (on github) very quickly.
Wrote up how to set things up for the ATtiny412 board on my blog (http://julianstraub.com/posts/programming_new_attiny_microcontrollers/). In case its useful for anybody else (and so I remember myself ;)).

Willem | Oct. 31, 2020

Great board but most of all: great core library

For ATtiny3226/3216/1606 dev board, Arduino compatible

Spence has made great libraries for using the ATtiny MCU’s with the Arduino IDE.
Mostly to support the work he does for this libraries I bought the ATtiny3216 board which also is well engineered!

Well done Spence, and thanks!

Phillip | Oct. 31, 2020

Awesome prototyping board to play with

For AVR128DA development board - Arduino compatible!

Nicely thought out design that lets you get to the features lurking inside this DA-series microcontroller. Whilst it included headers, I soldered on some of my own socket headers for easy direct plug in of bits and pieces. The onboard regulator, LED and pushbutton are nice inclusions, as well as the space for the external crystal which I haven't taken advantage of yet. Two minor annoyances on this revision of the board: The first is my aging eyes struggle a bit with the low contrast between the mustard-y solder mask and the white silkscreen, but it's fine when I put the magnifiers on. The second minor issue is the UPDI pin is mislabeled, but I think that's fixed now. Overall, this is a well made little piece of kit and recommended if you want to experiment with the Microchip DA series. Also recommend tracking the updates to the core as the software is evolving pretty quickly.

Response from Azduino by Spence Konde | Nov. 1, 2020

Regarding silkscreen.... It's, ah... not your eyes.... I can spot solder bridges on QFN parts from several feet away, and I have trouble with the silkscreen on some of these boards. For whatever reason, the silkscreen came out much worse on the DA-series boards than previous designs that used that color scheme. I've decided to ditch the yellow solder mask moving forward - it was originally chosen so that you could look at the board under the right light, and see the traces... I'm not sure that's the right metric to use; it certainly isn't particularly useful on these boards. I think I'm going to do green w/ENIG on AVR breakout boards moving forward - it looks beautiful, the silkscreen is clearly visible, everyone loves ENIG, and the cost of these boards is the design effort, not the production cost.

The RESET and UPDI pins look correct on the current version of the boards; did you somehow get your hands on a Rev. -? I didn't think any of those made it out the door - but hmm - the silkscreen on those was also worse...

And ah, yeah, I second his recommendation to keep an eye on the software libraries! Particularly on the Dx-series parts (ie. these ones, as opposed to the tinyAVR 0-series and 1-series supported by megaTinyCore). As development progresses, the amount of effort required to produce a given amount of improvement in the core increases, causing progress to sort of plateau. DxCore isn't at that point yet - there are lots of places where I can get excellent return on development effort still.

David | Oct. 27, 2020

Need help

For ATtiny 167 Development Board (assembled)

I've used your ATtiny88 board with no issues (awesome). With your ATtiny167, not so much. I am just trying to turn the LED on. I am using Atmel ICE unit. Basically using 2 instructions from assembled C code: sbi 0x4,3 and sbi 0x5,3 What am I missing? Hopefully I'm doing something wrong. Ignore the ratings since I needed to fill them to send this message

Response from Azduino by Spence Konde | Oct. 30, 2020

Hi - I just saw this now; I prioritize responding to Tindie messages, emailed requests for support, and github issues over reading reviews (and I have not received any such communication from you) I'm sorry to hear that you're having issues. I'm going to send an email to the address you placed your order through so we can handle it there.

It is rather hard to ignore a bad review, as the ratings do show up for all my customers, and are included when people view all the reviews for the store! Please do contact me directly when you're having issues with a board I've sold so that I can get things sorted out!

Thanks

Wolfgang | Oct. 24, 2020

Great deal for hassle-free LoRaWAN communication

For LoRaWAN RN2483/RN2903 Breakout board (Assembled)

I use the RN2483 breakout board in combination with a Espruino Pico and a MaxBotix Ultrasonic sensor. There were no issues wiring the whole thing up, there are some examples on Espruino side, some of them a little bit outdated. In my product I put a focus on power consumption, and setting the RN2483 to sleep and wake it up only when it is needed to transmit a sensor value via LoRaWAN worked excellent: There is no overhead in communication, the RN2483 just keeps registered into the LoRaWAN network and remembers all setting in memory. What I also like that the RN2483 takes away the burden from me in regards to Adaptive Data Rate (ADR) and compliance with respect to regulated duty cycle limits.
What I missed was the ability to directly attach a FTDI-Serial-to-USB cable to the device, in order to directly using a terminal application on the PC in order to communicate with the device. I think the issue is that this cable has 5V signal levels, while the RN2483 expects 3.3V signal levels.

Chien | Oct. 23, 2020

Dir. of engineering

For Breakout board for DFN/MSOP/WSON/VQFN-16 3-pack

The product meets my expectation and arrived on schedule.
Thank you for your support!
Best regards,

Chien Nguyen

Stephen | Oct. 3, 2020

Great support

For ATtiny841 dev. board w/Optiboot (assembled)

I used the ATtiny841 dev. board to prototype a product for a client before committing to a PCB deign/build. The board was delivered promptly and I was quickly able to get start programming using Arduino. This process allowed me to fully debug the firmware so that the client's product worked out of the chute.

More importantly, the support I got from Spence was great. He answered all my questions promptly and explained some of the subtleties of Optiboot and programmers that would've taken me hours to figure out myself.

Good to see this level of competence and support!

Steve.

Marco | Sept. 4, 2020

Very good board

For ATtiny1614/3224/etc breakout board (bare board)

The quality is very nice. The boards are working as they should nothing to complain. However, i would have one recommedation for a potential next iterartion. It would be nice if the pads for the headers at the FTDI and UPDI interfaces were as large as the pads at the GPIO outputs. The smaller pads are simply a bit hard to solder. You need some extra flux to wet the small rings propoerly. Its possible bu not as comfortable as for the larger ones.
Thanks.

Marco | Sept. 3, 2020

Great Board

For ATtiny3224/1614/1604 dev board Arduino compatible

Well, it simply works. UPDI, Serial, LED.... For Optiboot programming you need to power cycle but this is OK. Everything is fine. Thanks!

Erik | Aug. 26, 2020

Work excellent, and any questions were quickly answered!

For ATtiny412/402 dev board, Arduino compatible

Spence has done an amazing job with these! They are super simple, so they end up being pretty cheap, but they have everything I needed on them. I had a misunderstanding, and one part where I just wasn't finding the correct part of the datasheet to answer my question. In both cases, Spence responded to my questions very quickly and gave me a thorough answer (and pointed me to the part of the datasheet that I missed.)

Wonderful service!

Thanks again!

Erik | Aug. 19, 2020

Minimalist board that works just as advertised.

For ATtiny412/similar breakout board (bare board)

There's nothing extra on this board, but since it's something geared towards such a cheap chip, it really doesn't need much. It had everything I needed, and being simple meant that the cost was also kept down. Spence was also wonderful in answering a couple of questions I had very quickly. He really knows these inside and out, and it shows!

I'm an engineer and needed a development board to work with while testing things out before creating my own board for a customer project. This fit the bill, and was easy to work with, once I figured out a couple of footnotes in the datasheet, which Spence was also able to quickly point me towards.

Kevin | June 30, 2020

Awesome board!

For ATtiny3227/3217/1607 dev board, Arduino compatible

Really makes developing on the newer ATTiny chips a breeze. Also, the seller actively develops ATtiny Core on github which has been a huge boon for anyone trying to get into these chips. A+++

Kevin | June 30, 2020

Don't waste your time soldering leads

For Mini protoboard pieces - 28 pcs set only $6!

I'm a huge fan of these style of protoboards. I get tired of tying to get solder to jump across solder mask and making a mess. These boards make it super easy to add dual row chips and are worth the low cost.

Patrick | June 24, 2020

Good price fast ship

For 2" x 4" Prototyping/Project boards

The PCB was as described, good quality product. Shipping was fast and cheap. No issues with the product or the order.

Timothy | June 6, 2020

Nice breakout board, makes AtTiny SMT parts easy

For ATtiny3226/3216/1606 dev board, Arduino compatible

Great little board, plus Dr Azzy has supported the whole AtTiny community so much. If you have an old Nano, you can convert it into a UPDI programmer easily so don't need the bootloader.

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