For the Teensy Blaster, I used a Teensy v2.0 board from PJRC. It is a tiny board containing a not-so-limited AVR chip (32K of flash, >2K RAM, 1K of EEPROM, and a slew of I/O pins) and a mini-USB port with the ability to be USB bus powered. Tiny. Versatile. And cheap at $16/board! $24 nearly gets you nearly 4x the memory and nearly doubles the I/O ports.
Today, I ran across Teensy v3.0 on Kickstarter. In pretty much the same sized package, the Teensy v3.0 features a 32bit ARM Cortex-M4 board with 128K of Flash(!!), 16K of RAM(!!), 2K of EEPROM, and a slew of I/O options. If that weren’t enough, it includes support for IR, a high quality audio interface, an optional real time clock, 4 DMA channels, and support for touch sensor inputs. And more. Much more. Holy cow! Truly, a nutty amount of computing power in a 1.4″ x 0.7″ package!
And it can be used from both Arduino and C.
So, yeah, funded. No brainer.
Then, at the thank you for funding this project page, there is a thing you might be interested link that leads to the Digispark.
Wait. What? A board barely bigger than a USB connector that features an Arduino compatible CPU with multiple I/O pins, 8K of flash, PWM on 3 pins, ADC on 4 pins and many many different shields?!
For $8-$10 / board?!
Sign me up! (And I did!)