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GUIDE TO BOARDS 2025
2023 was a great year for boards, with both Raspberry
Pi and Arduino launching new flagships in the form of
the Pi 5 and Uno R4 respectively. Supply chain issues
had largely been solved and we found ourselves in a
Cambrian explosion of microcontrollers and single-
board computers, thanks to abundant resources
including the RP2040 and ESP32, and the sustained
availability of basic integrated circuits and passive
components whose scarcity had been stunting the
growth of the domain.
2024 saw the continuation of that evolution, with
manufacturers developing highly specialized species