What are some good discovery kits for a complete beginner to embedded?

• MicroPython

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  MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems

  

IMHO, it has good wireless (eg : tcp/ip, bluetooth, openthread) and it runs on a lot of MCUs (eg : ARM, RISCV, ESP32, MIPS, etc) and works w/ micropython and TinyML.

• PlatformIO

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  Your Gateway to Embedded Software Development Excellence :alien:

  

I'm a veteran, and have used Arduino professionally, but see why it gets a bad rap. That said all embedded gets more abstracted every day with HAL and libraries. Anything with Wifi, BLE, or USB can be pretty complicated. Let's get real. You don't write anything yourself from scratch, you live on the shoulders of giants. Learn to love abstraction. The question is too broad. Find something useful you want to do and try to go do it. Then choose the best tool to do that job. If you don't need wireless, and want to do something time critical like a motor controller I like the STM32 Cube. Their HAL and device libs are some of the best. If you need Wifi, the ESP32 is the best entry point for a hobbyist. Nordic is the king, if BLE is your thing, but not the easiest. Cypress, Atmel have some great parts, but the tools are in a funk. Check out https://platformio.org/ which supports many platforms, and can show you examples of doing the same thing in Arduino or Native. FYI, you can actually mix and match Arduino with native, so it's not really a choice you have to make. Learn to use all the tools in the toolbox.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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