Why a Digispark should not be your first Arduino.

See the problems you can expect to run up against if you're going to try using a Digispark or Digispark-like board. I explain this in the video a couple of times but much of it is in text in the video. Just so that it is explained in text: These Digispark, clones of it, V-USB, Micronucleus, etc, are all fine if you know what you're getting into. Most beginners don't. And that's all I am to do in the video is warn you what sorts of problems you can expect to encounter.

In the video I show an UNO R3. Not long before I made this video they announced a new ARM-based R4 model. It has not release yet, but it seems that they've gone to some effort to make it as comparable as possible within reason. It may be become the new beginner's board.The R3 UNO (or good clone of it) will probably remain the best option for beginners for a while though.

0:00 Intro
0:15 Digispark description
0:52 Key feature
1:34 Problem 1: Unprotected Bootloader
2:14 Problem 2: Unreliable USB
3:14 Problem 3: Limited memories and peripherals
4:12 Problem 4: No USB Serial
5:11 Problem 5: Unmaintained board support
5:51 Problem 6: Disabled RESET pin
6:38 Problem 7: Poorly constructed PCB trace plugs on boards that have them
7:09 Problem 8: Low pin count
7:27 Problem 9: Lack of learning materials
7:53 Conclusion / Advice