https://medium.com/@gerybbg/playing-with-xinabox-part-1-cfb742b676e7

With IoT becoming such a large part of our lives, I have often come across developers who want to get started but have no idea how. Why is that? Well, it is probably related to one of my favourite programmer jokes:

I am one of these people, I struggle to understand the hardware, but I really enjoy writing the software. That was until I started playing with XinaBox. These lego like electronics, allow you to clip different chips together and get prototyping quickly and efficiently. All XinaBox chips are based off of other popular chips used in prototyping, making it easy to find libraries and tutorials.