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This definitely puts the STM32F429 Discovery board to shame with its now inflated $80 price tag.



The STM32F4 is a Cortex-M4 microcontroller. You have direct access to optimally do whatever you want with the CubeIDE and GCC libraries.

This is a platform, if the things you want to do are possible with the entire stack of Debian, the pre-existing touchscreen menus, the PinPong Python libraries, etc. then sure, use this...but that's a lot of wasted efficiency and a very large dependency.

The STM32F4, for example, can be configured to enter deep sleep and run for a long time on a battery. This likely cannot.


That dev board has a schematic and data sheets for all parts. This one has a flashy website with no such thing. That’s what you pay your $80 for




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