The ESP32 does everything a Pi Pico does, but costs less and lasts 100x longer on batteries ...

It’s always nice to simulate a project before soldering a board together. Tools like QUCS run locally and work quite well for ...

It's why DIY smart home projects suddenly got cheap (and actually doable) ...

Five new Elektor courses help beginners take their first steps in microcontroller programming with Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi Pico. Each course combines hands-on projects, hardware kits, and ...

The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980. They’ve since discontinued that line, but it lives on in the low-cost STC8 family of chips, which is ...

Bruce Kingsley used an Arduino project board to add sound, motion, and programmed lighting effects to this HO scale house. You can read his story and other Arduino ...

Some members of the maker community are distraught about Arduino’s new terms of service (ToS), saying that the added rules put the company’s open source DNA at ...

Microcontroller units (MCUs) are single-chip computers optimized for performing embedded computing tasks like controlling a coffee machine or a medical device, an industrial robot, or an electric ...

Qualcomm has just signed an agreement to acquire Arduino, and the goal of the purchase is to “combine Qualcomm’s leading-edge products and technologies with Arduino’s vast ecosystem and community to ...