Imagine you’re stuck on a desert island, hundreds of miles away from the nearest person, and you finally have time to finish that project you’re working on. You have a single microcontroller, but ...

An increasing number of vendors offer 32-bit microcontrollers based on ARM® Cortex®-M processors, and at the same time, there are also new development environments introduced for these microcontroller ...

Arduino is a microcontroller designed for real-time hardware control with very low power use. Raspberry Pi is a full computer that runs operating systems and handles complex tasks. Arduino excels at ...

The advent of the Arduino brought the world of microcontrollers to hobbyists, students, and artist the world over. Right now we’re in the midst of a new expansion in hobbyist electronics with the ...

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Raspberry Pi enthusiasts may be interested in a new project called LEMPA or the LEan Mean Programming mAchine, created by developer Roey Benamotz. This innovative project features a custom PCB that ...

The project is known as MUIO Interface where a homebrew microcontroller board operates over USB and requires no programming to get started making it easy to use. The board is featuring everything from ...

ARM’s range of Cortex-A processors power a bewildering range of devices from Single Board Computers, like the Raspberry Pi 2, to massive servers like HP’s Moonshot servers. You also find them in ...

Block-based editors are simple to use but can be limiting if complex programs need to be written. Text-based languages add more flexibility but are harder to understand and use. Flowcharts are simple ...

A new embedded controller platform, known as FIVE, is said to seamlessly integrate the benefits of microcontrollers with a dedicated architecture, the Decision Processor, that is oriented to ...