This is my current favorite dev/project board. It has so much stuff. WiFi, Bluetooth, LoRa, and LTE! It also has pins for analog/digital I/O. This thing is incredible.

https://pycom.io/product/fipy/

Pycom also has various extension boards that plug right in with things like NFC/RFID, GPS, light/pressure/humidity sensors, etc.

Oh, and how could I forget to mention that it can run python directly on the microcontroller (micropython) so you don't need to know C to mess with it. And it does that thing where it mounts as a filesystem and you can just drag python files over to it and it'll automatically reboot into running them.

Highly recommend this little device.