The Teensy Family Grows With Versions 3.5 and 3.6

Teensy boards have been used since 2008 for DIY electronics projects. The first version pushed the envelope by offering native USB support, and subsequent boards continued to develop. Now in 2016 creator Paul Stoffregen is offering the latest Teensy models, 3.5 and 3.6.

Version 3.5 features a 120 MHz processor, while 3.6 runs at 180 MHz and also has two USB ports. Considering that it comes in a stick approximately the size of a human finger, a board like this should open up all kinds of awesome project possibilities!

Teensy 3.6

• MCU: MK66FX1M0VMD18 180MHz ARM Cortex-M4 with Floating Point Unit

• 1M Flash, 256K RAM, 4K EEPROM

• USB High Speed (480 Mbit/sec) Port

• 2 CAN-bus ports

• 32 general purpose DMA channels

• 11 touch-sensing inputs

Teensy 3.5

• MCU: MK64FX512VMD12 120-MHz ARM Cortex-M4 with Floating Point Unit

• 512K Flash, 192K RAM, 4K EEPROM

• 1 CAN-bus port

• 16 general purpose DMA channels

• 5V tolerance on all digital I/O pins

Features common in both

• 62 I/O pins (42 breadboard-friendly)

• 25 analog inputs to 2 ADCs with 13-bit resolution

• 2 analog outputs (DACs) with 12-bit resolution

• 20 PWM outputs

• USB full speed (12Mbit/sec) port

• Ethernet mac, capable of full 100 Mbit/sec speed

• Native SD card port

• I2S audio port, 4-channel digital audio input and output

• 14 hardware timers

• Cryptographic acceleration unit

• Random number generator

• CRC computation unit

• 6 serial ports (2 with FIFO & fast baud rates)

• 3 SPI ports (1 with FIFO)

• 4 I2C ports

• Real-time clock

For a demonstration of what one of these boards is capable of, check out around 1:25 in the Kickstarter video where it produces guitar chords using well under 10 percent of its processing power!