Teensy
Teensy is a development tool and IDE for programming PJRC's Teensy microcontroller boards — small, Arduino-compatible embedded systems used by makers, students, hobbyists and electronics engineers. The Teensy platform is popular in music production, hardware hacking, robotics and interactive art projects. Users write sketches in a C/C++-based IDE, compile firmware, and upload it to Teensy boards via USB. The software supports numerous library integrations and hardware variants ranging from simple I/O boards to high-performance audio processing units.
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1 suggestionWe could not find recent information about Teensy's native Apple Silicon support status in our search results. Given that this is a development tool from PJRC (a small specialist vendor), we recommend contacting PJRC directly or checking their official website at pjrc.com to confirm whether a native Apple Silicon build is available or planned. If no native build exists yet, ask the vendor when they expect to ship one — you have until macOS 28 (late 2027) before Rosetta 2 is removed and Intel-only builds stop working. As an interim measure, the current Intel build continues to run under Rosetta 2 on M-series Macs, though with some performance and compatibility trade-offs. If Teensy's current build becomes problematic, Arduino IDE (which supports Teensy boards) has native Apple Silicon support and may serve as an alternative development environment.
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