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Nowadays, Wireless applications are widely extended in the Scientific, Education and Hobbyist communities. The aim of this paper is to provide a review of some of the most popular boards which allow an ease way to develop a wide range of applications related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) in an educational manner. Moreover, the scope is focused on those development boards which allow Wireless communications in order to perform Things which can be integrated into an Internet of Things environment. Arduino WiFi Shield, Arduino Yún Shield, Arduino MKR1000, NodeMCU ESP8266 and Onion Omega have been analyzed, compared and discussed. The analysis has been carried out attending on the Built-in Hardware, the Programmer Interface, the connection possibilities and the Developer Community which is behind the corresponding board.
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The authors acknowledge the support provided by the Engineering Industrial School of UNED, the Doctorate School of UNED, and the “Techno-Museum: Discovering the ICTs for Humanity” (IEEE Foundation Grant #2011-118LMF).
And the partial support of the eMadrid project (Investigación y Desarrollo de Tecnologías Educativas en la Comunidad de Madrid) - S2013/ICE-2715, IoT4SMEs project (Internet of Things for European Small and Medium Enterprises), Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership nº 2016-1-IT01-KA202-005561), and PILAR project (Platform Integration of Laboratories based on the Architecture of visiR), Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership nº 2016-1-ES01-KA203-025327.
And to the Education Innovation Project (PIE) of UNED, GID2016-17-1, “Prácticas remotas de electrónica en la UNED, Europa y Latinoamérica con Visir - PR-VISIR”, from the Academic and Quality Vicerectorate and the IUED (Instituto Universitario de Educación a Distancia) of the UNED.
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Plaza, P., Sancristobal, E., Carro, G., Castro, M., Ruiz, E. (2018). Wireless Development Boards to Connect the World. In: Auer, M., Zutin, D. (eds) Online Engineering & Internet of Things. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64352-6_2
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