New development environment for creative developers

Conrad has expanded its portfolio with several products from the new M5Stack series offered on the European market under its own brand, MAKERFACTORY. Set to conceivably become trend products, the M5Stack series are targeted at business-to-business customers such as start-ups, research and development departments, schools and universities. They are also directing and supporting business-to-consumer customers such as makers, techies and trend followers, helping them in the development of innovative technology projects. B2B customers who use the M5Stack series will recognise the possibility of building prototypes easily, quickly and without hardware design. Another advantage is that users can apply different programming languages, including Arduino, C/C++, MicroPython and Blockly. “M5Stack is a complete and ready-to-use development environment for the ESP32 microcontroller in a rugged package with an integrated TFT display and three freely programmable soft keys”, explains Patrik Götz, Conrad Technology Center. “With this series, modules with expansion functions can be stacked directly on top of each other in the housing – hence the name M5Stack. This provides users with a complete device which they can install in a desired location.” This series is perfect for makers, trend followers, hobbyists, inventors and technicians who may need a prototyping platform that serves the end product and where project developments are not only easy, but also very fast.