Malaysia based Cytron has a history of making fun Maker boards. From the Maker HAT, Maker Pi Pico, and the robotics focussed Maker Pi RP2040 we have reviewed it is evident that Cytron are catering for the maker market. For its latest board, the $56 CM4 Maker Board, we see its focus shift from the mainstream Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi Pico, to the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4.
The CM4 Maker Board is a Swiss Army knife, it offers all the connections that we need to connect HATs, sensors and fast NVMe SSDs in a 110 x 110 mm package. But is this versatility to the detriment of its functionality? To understand this and learn more about the board, we put it on the new test bench and started the tests.
