Easy & Powerful Arduino Alternative? #3 Teensy Beginner's Guide

You can get the Teensy LC Development Board here: (affiliate links):

You can find more information about the board and how to use it here:

In this video we will have a closer look at the Teensy microcontroller development board, especially the Teensy LC. That means I will show you how to program the board and how to use most of its functions. At the end I will then determine whether it is an easy to use, but powerful Arduino alternative. Let's get started!

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[SzymonJakubiak]

It's worth mentioning, that creator of the Teensy boards is very active contributor to the development of Arduino IDE. It's more than unfair to compare prices of Teensy boards to prices of clones from far east.

[jonmayer]

The teensy team also provided a lot of fixes and improvements back to the Arduino ide.

[dorhalperin]

If I remember correctly the latte panda has an integrated arduino pro that can use as native usb device.
And if you will use it you don't need to use the teensy.
Keep making great videos.

[fixless]

I remember subscribing to your channel back when you only had 9 subs, I was your tenth sub. You are amazing, I'm really trying to get on your level but my little boy has cancer and don't have the money or equipment to study but I love electronics

[borayurt]

Arduino ProMicro with ATMega 32U4 is cheap enough and has native USB support.

[jcugnoni]

I love the Teensy microcontrollers, especially the 3.5/3.6: these are real processing beasts with 32bit FPU and ARM DSP instructions, you can do serious realtime signal processing.

[fullzys]

Always have to stay up until 12:30am on a Monday morning for a Great Scott video! Awesome content once again

[ShahZahid]

What about using a arduino pro micro which has a atmega32u

[oleksandrhusiev]

lol, 11$, stm32f103 - 1.5$ with HID support

[rdxdt]

Well the ATMega32u4 a.k.a. Arduino Leonardo has the interface that work greatly.
It also exist in a small board in the same size as the Arduino Nano.
I have made a video of my arcade joystick build using an ATMega32u4

[id]

Why not just use some cheap STM32 boards? You can find them for the price of only $2(including shipping) which is like 5 times cheaper than the board in the video.

[hallolo]

The Teensy's also have very powerful DMA... This allows to control eight Strings of digital or so called adressable (They actually aren't adressable) LEDs at a time, since at above about 1000 LED's the refresh rate gets to low. With the OctoWS2811 library for the Teensy's, you can control huge amounts of LEDs. And the best thing about this is, that sending out the actual data signal does not slow down or affect the CPU, it is managed by them DMA-Controller. The CPU can continue working while the data signal is sent out.
Combined with other really neat features like the DSP-instructions (very useful for FFT), this facilitated me to build a 12^3 RGB LED-Cube with a Teensy 3.6.

[jalal]

Great video my friend, Scott. Guys, please don't make him mad, he WILL SEE US NEXT TIME :)

[Sxmusic]

There's the arduino pro micro board if you just want the USB interface, they cost only 2-3$ on aliexpress and essentially are a tiny arduino leonardo.

[lmaoroflcopter]

Yes! The teensy! Been using them since v2.0 they're brilliant.

[bluedeath]

I quite like the STM32F103 as an Arduino alternative and has a USB interface. It is also pretty powerful. It is a little bit more of a pain to flash it with a compatible bootloader, but once you know the process it is a 2-minute thing to do. They are also similarly priced to a nano.

[Giblet]

The Teensy is my go-to dev board if I think I'll overtax a Nano, if I need 2 SPI busses, if I need to do real math, or if I'm doing any kind of audio processing. The 3.1 is 5V tolerant. The PJRC forum is superb. But if Teensy amazes you, I can't wait until you discover the Espressif ESP32 boards. Great Arduino IDE support, dual cores, WiFi, BlueTooth.

[kluzz]

Atmega32U4 boards do all the things needed, are Arduino compatible and cost less than $3 including shipping from China. Just saying.

[Adi_vk]

Congrats bro for 1M subs
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[akshaygupta]

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