AdafruitTrinket - Mini Microcontroller - 3.3V Logic [ADA1500]

Great little arduino board. I keep buying these for various DIY projects. It's as small as you can get without laying out a board yourself. Great support on the Adafruit website as well.

It's usable for DIY project that I'm doing. Although I did have issues finding the right IDE to use. At first, I used the latest version but in the end, I used one version down and installed relevant drivers.

See the device in Device manager bit will not show in IDE

I bought this by mistake. My bad, but it is hard to follow instructions out there to use it.

These quickly become indispensable for your maker projects and are cheap enough to keep a few around "just in case."

Holy crap is this thing a piece of work to use.DO NOT BUY THIS -- unless you are willing to spend quite a few hours sifting through its documentation and learning its quibbles and foibles.However, it is significantly smaller than an Arduino Nano, and worked perfectly once I was able to figure out what makes it tick. Tested under high acceleration, and it worked just fine. This microcontroller was featured in the Guinness World Record-setting effervescent tablet rocket.

No complaints with any Adafruit products to date. Have been a repeat customer for many years. They do electronics the way they should be done, drivers, tutorials, videos, community support. Their website has any and everything related that one could need, including archived drivers.

I very seldom write reviews, but I decided I should warn folks that this product is more of a Beta board than a plug-n-play product. You should not order this unless you like to troubleshoot software drivers, and deal with config file variances between IDE's. Sorry, but it's just not friendly out of the box, and it definitely shouldn't be assumed to be kid friendly like the Arduino stuff. I still don't have it working on my Windows 7 machine and my Windows 8.1 is even more restrictive. Sorry Adafruit... good idea, but for heavens sakes finish the product before you mass produce and release it. Don't believe me? Check out youtube and the Adafruit forums for yourself.