2016 was a great year for Open Hardware. The Open Source Hardware Association released their certification program, and late in the year, a few silicon wizards met in Mountain View to show off the ...

Look at any sufficiently advanced CNC machine or robot, and you’ll notice something peculiar. On one hand, you have a computer running a true operating system for higher-level processing, be it vision ...

In this article, I'll be explaining the basics of how microcontrollers work, physically and virtually. First off, microcontrollers are no simple thing, so don't be discouraged if you find it ...

Microchip Technology Inc. simplifies the development of smart, connected and secure solutions with its CEC1702, a hardware cryptography-enabled microcontroller. The CEC1702 is a full-featured ARM® ...

Every Batman needs a Robin, right? Maybe not, but a superhero companion comes in handy on occasion, and not just in comic books. The Raspberry Pi Foundation today announced a small and super ...

A few years ago, the default answer to almost any “tiny computer” project was a full single-board computer running Linux. That made sense, because you got drivers, packages, a real filesystem, and ...

The intel 8051 series 8bit microcontroller, originally introduced in 1980, remains popular and has had perhaps the longest product life of all such devices. It has become the industry standard for ...

Developers need rapid prototyping tools to get ideas into working order so they can eventually get to market more quickly. I spoke with Dung Dang, a Texas Instruments (TI) application engineer, about ...

CHANDLER, Ariz., April 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New legislation takes effect in 2024, mandating stricter requirements on cybersecurity on everything from consumer IoT devices to critical ...

MicroPython is a compact implementation of the Python 3 programming language designed to work with microcontrollers. Initially announced back in 2013 as part of a Kickstarter project created by Damien ...