{"id":528285,"date":"2026-07-16T02:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/528285\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T02:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:39:09","slug":"pinch-puts-an-arduino-on-a-usb-c-connector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/528285\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinch Puts An Arduino On A USB-C Connector"},"content":{"rendered":"

Compared to the Arduino Uno of old, modern microcontrollers are absolutely tiny \u2014 especially for the amount of processing power and I\/O you get. But if you need something\u00a0really small, like fits-on-the-tip-of-your-finger small, most of the turn-key development boards on the market are still a bit too big.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Enter the pinch from moddo<\/a>, which they advertise as \u201cThe World\u2019s Smallest 32-Bit Arduino-
Compatible Board.\u201d We can\u2019t vouch for its world-record status, but we certainly can\u2019t think of a smaller one. At least not a complete solution like this, which offers native USB and 15 GPIO pins in addition to the usual suspects like SPI, I2C, PWM, and UART. In fact, it\u2019s so small that it even includes a breakout board to make prototyping a bit easier.<\/p>\n

Coming from something like an ESP32, the biggest adjustment will probably be working around the relatively limited specs of the SAMD11. The ARM Cortex-M0+ under the hood tops out at 48 MHz, and there\u2019s only 4 KB SRAM and 16 KB flash (of which the bootloader eats up 4 KB). Still, not bad for something that occupies roughly the same surface area as a female USB-C connector.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re told the team is in the final stages of testing and production of the pinch, and you can currently pre-order the $16 board ahead of its planned September ship date. A circuit schematic and STEP 3D model are already available, and it looks like board design files aren\u2019t far behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Compared to the Arduino Uno of old, modern microcontrollers are absolutely tiny \u2014 especially for the amount of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-528285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}