[jmole]

I thought this article would first start with the most essential question: "How to decide what you need on your devboard".

Without that critical piece of design work, you may as well call this "How to build a Raspberry Pi Nano from scratch". Which, to be fair, is also a good article to write.

But step 1 for really building a dev board is answering the question, "What do I need from this that I can't get from a $5 Amazon purchase?"

[brailsafe]

> What do I need from this that I can't get from a $5 Amazon purchase?

A month of enjoyment tinkering on a hobby just for the hell of it.

[madaxe_again]

I just go the other way - dev boards are so cheap you can just take a scalpel to them and take off the bits you don’t want.