Ensuring the safety of loved ones—especially children and the elderly—is a constant concern for families. While caregivers want to stay connected and responsive at all times, it is practically ...

What happens when you combine an Arduino-based microcontroller with a palm-sized aluminum box and clicky buttons? A fidget toy that invites coder creativity. I’m PCMag’s home theater and AR/VR expert, ...

I am leaving this blog to spend more time making things in the workshop and, hopefully, finally mastering FreeCad – amongst other mountains to climb (both intellectual and physical). So this is a ...

Learn Python-based motor control, sensors, and feedback loops. Ideal for beginners exploring robotics programming with Python. The idea of controlling a robot using only a few lines of code may seem ...

There have been many development boards recently built around the ESP32-S3. Most development boards come with a display, some also include cameras and buttons, and a few have speakers and microphones.

CircuitPython is Adafruit's branch of MicroPython designed to simplify experimentation and education on low-cost microcontrollers. It makes it easier than ever to ...

Code for driving HUB75-style RGB LED matrices, targeted at 32-bit MCUs using brute-force GPIO (that is, not relying on DMA or other specialized peripherals beyond a timer interrupt, goal being ...

Teensy 4.0 and 4.1 Cortex-M7 development boards are to be manufactured by SparkFun Electronics. The boards are attractive because they offer a combining a powerful (600MHz dual-issue superscaler) ...

Have you ever found yourself wishing for a development board that packs a punch without taking up too much space? Whether you’re a DIY enthusiast tinkering with your next big idea, a student eager to ...

Raspberry Pi has stepped up its chip development with a quad core microcontroller with two ARM Cortex-M33 cores and two in-house RISC-V cores. The $5 Raspberry Pi Pico 2 board uses the RISC-V RP2350 ...

I guess for those uninitiated, the Raspberry Pi Pico is the Pi Foundations’ own microcontroller. It’s not a fully-fledged PC in a little stick like the Pi Zero, but a way to do little things (motors, ...