Teensy is very similar to an Arduino Board. It is a complete USB-based microcontroller development system. Its very small and very powerful and beats the Arduino in many ways, so you can use it it a lot of different applications and projects. They have fast processors, a ton of libraries and are compatible with most Arduinos libraries. Its generous flash and RAM, numerous peripherals, and smallest size make it perfect for my most creative ideas.
Teensy Board 4.0
Teensyduino
This is the software you have to install to communicate with your teensy. Basically you modify your existing Arduino software to hack Teensy support right in there. Then you just have to select your board and you are ready to go. It also installs you a lot of extremely useful libraries. On Windows you are required to install extra drivers. If you are on Mac, you are about to replace the Arduino Software by Teensyduino itself.
Different Teensy Boards
There are a few different versions of the Teensy Board out there. The Teensy 3.2 is already a little bit out of date, which was followed by Teensy 3.6, which has a much stronger processor, more pins and a built-in SD card slot. The powerhouse is still the Teensy 4.0, which has like 40 I/O lines compared to the Arduino´s 14. This list goes on with all the other connectivity options on the Teensy. The Teensy also runs at 600 Megahertz and is even cheaper than any Arduino on the market.
Looking forward to use the Teensy board in one of my projects, because its also great for the use with audio, especially with the Teensy Audio Board which I will talk more about in my next post.
