There was a time when building electronics and building software were two distinct activities. These days, almost any significant electronic project will use a CPU somewhere, or — at least — could.

RuggedCircuits.com is a website that offers custom circuits designs. Their product includes Ruggeduino – a ruggedized Arduino-compatible microcontroller board; Rugged Motor Driver – a motor driver for ...

As with many inventions, two people had the idea for an integrated circuit at almost the same time. Transistors had become commonplace in everything from radios to phones to computers, and now ...

A basic Arduino board adds creativity, flexibility, and interactivity to your home lab. It costs little but opens countless ...

There are many reasons to build your own Arduino circuit on a protoboard or a custom-designed printed circuit board. At the heart of the Arduino platform is an AVR microcontroller, in usual way you ...

If you’ve done 3D printing, you’ve probably at least heard of Tinkercad. This popular CAD package runs in your browser and was rescued from oblivion by Autodesk a few years ago. [Chuck] recently did a ...

So you finally decided to hop on the Arduino bandwagon and start making electronic projects as a fun hobby. As a beginner getting started with Arduino, your first instinct is typically to buy a ...

September 12th marks the arrival of one of the greatest inventions of all time, and it happened 65 years ago at Dallas-based Texas Instruments. TI employee Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit ...

Qualcomm's acquisition gives it access to millions of developers in the Arduino ecosystem while also supporting its platform strategy for embedded devices, which now extends across hardware, software, ...

The first-generation Mazda Miata, or MX-5 as it's known in some countries, went into production in 1989. The little cars were a modern interpretation of an old-school British roadster, and the first ...