Teensy 3.5 and 3.6 from SparkFun

The Teensy is a breadboard-friendly development board with loads of features in a, well, teensy package. Each Teensy 3.6 comes pre-flashed with a bootloader so you can program it using the onboard USB connection; no external programmer needed! You can program for the Teensy in your favorite program editor using C or you can install the Teensyduino add-on for the Arduino IDE and write Arduino sketches for it!

The processor on the Teensy also has access to the USB and can emulate any kind of USB device you need it to be, making it great for USB-MIDI and other HID projects. The 32-bit, 180MHz processor brings a few other features to the table as well, such as multiple channels of Direct Memory Access, several high-resolution ADCs and even an I2S digital audio interface! There are also four separate interval timers plus a delay timer! Oh yeah, and all digital pins have interrupt capability and are 3.3V tolerant.

All of this functionality is jammed into a 62.3mm x 18.0mm board with all headers on a 0.1" grid so you can slap it on a breadboard and get to work! The Teensy 3.5 (as well as its sibling, the Teensy 3.6) is larger, faster and capable of more complex projects, especially with its onboard micro SD card port. An upgraded ARM Cortex MCU (180MHz from 72MHz), more memory (1M from 256K), as well as more RAM, EEPROM and accessible pins make up the key new features of this “teensy” board. The Teensy 3.6 is slightly scaled up from the Teensy 3.5 but is offered at a higher price point, comparatively.

[kingcrimson]

If you have any question about the processing power of the Teensy 3.6, I turned one into an 8086 PC emulator that runs DOS and games/software for it. Yeah. It has some power.

[DavidHaile_profile]

The Teensy has excellent audio libraries as well. I used one for a radar CPU last year.

[JustWastedHoursHere]

Very cool board (especially for the money)! On a side note: That bar through your nose would make me cross-eyed within a week! :P


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[stanpak]

Very nice and professional introduction to this interesting new board. From what I see the trend is to provide more pins and more CPU power. Lack of wireless connectivity and price may be a drawback when compared to soon-be-launched ESP-32. BTW I wonder if Sparkfun is preparing their own offer of boards for ESP-32.

[ConnorWidtfeldt]

Hey Nick, maybe you would know. I heard that OctoWS2811 could only run lights in "parallel". Is it possible to control each one of these panels individually, or must they all be the same?

[pieterbosch]

hmm shame it hasn't a built in wifi? I use Wemos D1 a lot and it connects to the internet wirelessly!

[jakayboy]

Any kind of guide for how you did this?

[arunkumarretech]

are we able to develop a machine like a laser printer with this ?? & is this able to drive the stepper motor up to 30 kg torque by using motor driver??

[rodelvistal]

Is there a way where I can read the content of the micro SD card directly from my PC without having to remove the SD card? Can I use the same usb host port but instead connect it to the PC?
Basically, what i wanna do is attach a sensor to one of the analog inputs and write the sensor data into a file(txt, image etc)to the SD card, and read it directly from the PC via usb without removing the SD card.
I would really appreciate your answer.

[Scott.Roewer]

This video is full of jargon.If you're a beginner forget about understanding or learning anything from the content.

[bubba]

I love your loupe lamp, what brand and model is it?

[chloemcholoe]

that's not THAT many pins really.

[bigyote]

Ethernet support??? Jesus, tried hooking up a WIZ820io to the 3.6 --- total pain in the arse. How about a well-documented instructable on attaching either ethernet or wifi to the Teensy 3.6 and doing something useful with it like sending sensor data to a web server? Don't suggest I look at what is already out there for the Teensy in this regard -- I have, and it ALL SUCKS, especially the PJRC web site. Not impressed with Teensy. I love my NodeMCUs and ESP8266s and REALLY looking forward to the ESP32 too. TEENSY, without meaningful wifi, you wasted my money.

[Shadowcruise]

What is it with SparkFun? Is it a prerequisite that a prospective employee have gaged ears, piercings and or tattoos?? One can only wonder what's next!

[gotj]

Me desagradan las chinchetas en la cara y tanto anillo y tatuaje, una pena xq me interesa el teensy pero ya lo veré en algún otro sitio.

[richardf]

Sorry, really hard to watch this guy.