While the Arduino family of boards connect to your computer using a USB virtual serial port, the ATmega ones have an actual serial connection on-board.

Using the serial monitor that is built into the Arduino IDE (Integrated Development Environment, aka desktop software), write a program that reads in a value and echoes back the same value.

The Arduino Due software comes with software examples for a WAV and OGG player. • 4 high-speed serial communication ports. • 70 input/output pins. • High-speed CAN interface.

It generates the clock, acts like a serial port, acts like a disk drive, and so on. However, the ATMega32 doesn’t directly have Arduino IDE support so you have to install a toolchain for it.

Demand for embedded programming is growing like crazy, so anyone looking for some job security might consider becoming an ace embedded programmer. It helps to have some programming experience, but ...

Here’s the code we promised you in the current issue of Macworld. To download a Zip archive containing this code as well as the compiled script, click here. long MINUTES = 15; // take a break ...

Tobie Nortje wires together a massive wall-mounted GameBoy using a LED TV and giant buttons connected to an Arduino microcontroller.