Teensy 3.2: A first look at the powerful Arduino compatible board from pjrc.com

If you need a small but powerful Arduino board, Teesy 3.2 is the best board available today. In this video we take a first look at Teensy 3.2 board, we set it up and we run the blink program. Next we try the code of a previous Arduino project to see if it is really compatible.

A few weeks ago Paul Stofreggen, the creator of Teensy, sent me an email and asked me if I would like a Teensy to make projects with it. Of course my reply was positive and a few days later I received a package! Two Teensys, an Audio board and a big 2.8 inch color TFT display! Thanks Paul!

As you can see the Teensy 3.2 board is very small. It is smaller than an Arduino Nano and it has the same size with an Arduino Pro Mini. But despite its small size it outperforms these Arduino boards on every aspect! The board uses a 32bit 72Mhz ARM processor which can be overclocked to run at 96MHz! That's 6 times the frequency of the Arduino Uno. If you take in consideration that Teensy uses a 32Bit ARM processor the performance difference with a 8bit 16MHz Arduino board is huge. The only board the can be as powerful as Teensy is the Arduino Due.

Teensy provides 256Kbytes of Flash memory to store your programs which is 16 times more than the flash memory of an Arduino Uno. It has 64Kbytes of RAM and it supports Direct Memory Access. It uses 3.3V logic levels but all of its 34 Digital Inputs and Outputs are 5V tolerant. It also has 21 analog inputs and one true analog output, 12 PWM pins and much more.

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[Shapeplusform]

MIDI Controller going in-depth into the programming please! <3

[nychold]

I swear, I thought I heard him say "It has 64 gigabytes of RAM."

[EdS]

so were is this online programing software?

[MrCeez]

I want to build a controller for a dj/Daw software. Is the teensy appropriate for this project?

[YuriSoul]

Does the teensy board always have to stay plugged in to USB into the computer to be running the program? Or can it be programmed once by the software and then unplugged?

[Bonjour-World]

"21 High Resolution Analog Inputs (13 bits usable, 16 bit hardware)"
Stupid question: Why are only 13 bits usable ?

[jmalmsten]

I've been wanting to build a decimal 10hr clock for years... I'm starting to think that the teensy would be perfect for that.

[alemjcn]

Hi i love your videos.
Can you please share the code u used in video teensy+ rtc+ spi lcd
keep up the good work
best regards Primo

[johnnymoondp]

I’m trying to figure out how to make a digital DJ turntable that uses no tone arm and manipulates digital media as a midi/ hid controller

[davidb]

Does it work touch screen on any of this module?

[TheBddan]

can you make a controller (with joystick) out of the Teensy software?

[headfog]

hello. do you happen to know anything about how to make a mavlink to frsky gps converter? having to do with quadcopters.

[ruicravomarques]

I would like to see a Project of a inclinometer for my bike. I'm not new to arduino, so this time I choose the teensy platform since it's much faster and compatible with most projects. I was thinking of an mpu9255 based imu (9dof) and a tft. Also I was thinking on adding a gps and logging the telemetry to file so it could be analyzed on the pc with the gps track overlayed on googlemaps or something like that... what do you think of the idea ?

[jamest.]

what is the cost. and what's the cost of the board and display you made the clock with. I am very interested in them. that display is what I need. I think. what's the specs on it. where can I get them? thanks

[M.y]

my teensy is not working. It doesnt powre up with 5V power supply :C

[nikk]

the arduino uno can read frequencies of 50kHz ( or so i'm told ) can teensy do better? how much better ? upwards of 3mHz perhaps more?

[yaseenmallick]

can I use single teensy 3.2 for multiple project s

[jimwu]

Can you make Brew PI work on this board?

[bigblacki]

Can Teensy boards be used to attach car gauges to video games?

[lesliesaunders]

A voice sound effects modulator using teensy audio shield would be nice.