Pinch Puts an Arduino On a USB-C Connector

According to Hackaday, there's a new development board that's genuinely tiny — the Pinch fits on the tip of your finger, measuring roughly the same size as a USB-C connector. In that impossibly small package, it offers fifteen GPIO pins, native USB, a prototyping breakout board, and standard communication protocols like SPI, I2C, PWM, and UART. At the core is an ARM Cortex-M0-plus processor running at forty-eight megahertz, with just four kilobytes of RAM and sixteen kilobytes of flash storage. The tradeoff is that the SAMD11 microcontroller has real limits — it's not built for heavy computing — but for space-constrained projects and rapid prototyping, it's a solid option. Pre-orders are open now at sixteen dollars per board, with shipment expected in September.

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