When there are so many single board computers and other products aimed at providing children with the means to learn about programming and other skills, it is easy to forget at time before the Arduino ...

The number of easily usable and programmable microcontrollers is small, so when selecting one for a project there are only a handful of very popular, well documented chips that most of us reach for.

The Arduino 101 equipped with Intel's Curie module integrates a 6-axis gyro/accelerometer and Bluetooth, which sets it apart from the rest of the Arduino line up. What the heck is an Arduino? Simply ...

Atmel Corp. has announced its CAP microcontroller-based system-on-chip (SoC) platform for complex applications that require fast time-to-market. CAP features high-speed local memory, a wide range of ...

An AVR chip is used to design a great programmable LED which provides fun and a good building block for playing with collective behaviors. An AVR chip is used to design a great programmable LED which ...

Thanks to its reconfigurable peripherals, the original programmable system-ona- chip (PSoC) from Cypress Semiconductor is one of the major microcontroller advances of the past decade. However, its ...

A new type of wireless sensor can run entirely off ambient energy and be reprogrammed in the field. It's a breakthrough for this type of device and could lead to major advances in wearable and ...

Swift developers or those looking to get started may be interested in a new microcontroller that is capable of using the Apple Swift programming language to create a wide variety of different ...

A computer that follows a set of software instructions, which is essentially every computer. A general-purpose computer can perform any data processing operation that the instructions in a program ...