Setting up your Teensy

The Teensy 3.5 is an Arduino compatible microcontroller board powered by a 120MHz ARM Cortex M4 chip with more I/O interfaces than an AVR controller could dream of. But like most microcontroller boards, you can fry it easily if you're not careful with your wiring, so be careful. All the pins are 5V tolerant. We recommend powering it over the USB cable.

Making your Teensy breadboardable

One of the first things you might want to do is solder male headers to your Teensy to make it breadboardable. Be careful not to solder the header pins perpendicular to the two long edges on accident or else it won't be breadboardable anymore...

If you haven't soldered before, let a staff member know and we'll show you the ropes!

TAMProxy

Your Teensy should be preconfigured with the TAMProxy firmware, allowing you to control it from your NUC via Python code.
This means you shouldn't have to install any new firmware on the Teensy. See the software lecture slides for more info on TAMProxy.