FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR FRDM-KL25Z EVAL BRD, KINETIS KL25Z FREESCALE Freedom Platform

First, I love the fast shipping. It got here quick! My windows 10 computer did not recognize it and had to use a Windows 7 computer to update it and now it works like a charm in Windows 10. I am using this on a virtual pinball table to enable nudging. I am using Pinscape software to control it as joystick. I know this board can do more, I am only using it for nudging for now.

Would not program for Pinscape and then run. Tried multiple times. Ordered elsewhere and worked fine.

To anyone having trouble getting this to work on Windows 8+, you may need to update the bootloader from a Windows 7 machine to the latest version. After, you shouldn't have any issues. I have read about issues with USB 3, but I haven't run into any after 6+ months with daily usage.

This evaluation board is very useful to programate your embedded applications. The only "issue" is that you have to update the bootloader from a Windows 7 machine. After that, you can use the board without any issue. In fact, I use it in a Windows 10 machine without problems. I think this happen in all FRDM evaluation boards, because I had the same issue with a FRDM-KE02Z40M board.

Has no accelerometer, won't flash pinscape correctly there's something wrong with this doesn't look like other ones I've seen

I'm using this board with Pinscape to control my virtual pinball buttons and it's been fantastic. Highly recommend going this route if you're contemplating a zero delay controller board.

I purchased this board from Digikey, and it works fine on Windows 7. If you are using this via MBed on Windows 8 or 10 there are still a lot of programming bugs. Simply plugging it in will wipe might wipe the previous program from memory. The USB applications are not yet compatible with Windows 8 or 10 as well. Although If you plan on coding all of your firmware from scratch the hardware will work; but I purchased this for the Mbed compatibility.

Much more processing power than an arduino, but I still prefer a raspberry pi if I can afford the power. This was used for a battery operated automated car so I wanted something of low power that could handle a good amount of inputs and output. I wish there was built in wifi, but it ran fine with the esp8266.

It is the main controller for my Virtual Pinball machine!

The KL25Z that i received did not have the accelerometer chip soldered onto the board, the space where the accelerometer chip goes was blank. This is a main feature when purchasing a KL25Z devlopement board and rendered the board useless for my developement purpose.

The board worked no problem on win10, and I was able to program it with pinscape.

very good buy

Made a little scratch on board when installing it and cut a trace buy it from nxp site the price is 17.25 usd the quality fit the price very below 90$