Arduino has announced the new UNO R4 board family for prototyping and learning. The new models feature a faster microcontroller, a USB-C connector, improved power, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE, and more.

The Arduino UNO R4 boasts a 3x performance increase over the UNO R3 and , in addition, SRAM has been upgraded from 2kB to 32kB, and flash memory from 32kB to 256kB to support more complex projects.

Powered by a 32-bit microcontroller, the new UNO R4 comes in two versions: the basic UNO R4 Minima and comprehensive UNO R4 WiFi, meeting the budgetary and creative needs of the maker community.

The Arduino Uno R4 is to have a Renesas RA4M1 32-bit Arm Cortex-M4 microcontroller, and there are “no plans to discontinue the popular Uno R3” , according to Arduino, which estimates that R4 will ...

Massimo Banzi, co-founder and chairman of Arduino, announced the UNO R4 during Arduino Day 2023. He believes the UNO R4 is a new chapter in the UNO story and the perfect way to move forward, ...

Features common to Arduino R4 – ‘WiFi’ (€25, below) and ‘Minima’ (€18, right) IO connections are in physically similar positions to Uno R3, and IO remains 5V. USB connector changed to Type-C. 6 – ...

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