“Not as beginner-friendly as the Raspberry Pi, but easier to get into than an Arduino thanks to micropython. Recommended for those who want to transition from Python on the Raspberry Pi to the world of microcontrollers.
I used mine with a strip of neopixels and a few momentary touch buttons to make some shelf LEDs change colour in response to different button presses (work-in-progress breadboard just about visible in the top left of this image).”
“Love the pin design!! Very friendly for integrating into microcontroller projects with a small form factor packing in all the IO one needs for ≥99% of use cases.”