Compared to the Arduino Uno of old, modern microcontrollers are absolutely tiny — especially for the amount of processing ...

In order to not hit something, you generally need to know where that thing is. On land, the meager human eyesight tends to be ...

In a level of open criticism that's unusually frank for Microsoft's corporate-friendly business-networking site, hobbyist electronics vendor Adafruit published a stinging assessment of the rewritten ...

This document is aimed at the Arduino developers, radio experimenters, hobbyists and anyone interested in building a receiver based on the Si473X IC family from Silicon Labs. This project is about an ...

[Partner Content] In January 2023 Matrix just released version 10 of Flowcode with a number of feature enhancements and a significant licensing change: the program is now free for makers and hobbyists ...

UART stands for Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter and it is a useful hardware feature in any microcontroller unit. A microcontroller needs to receive data, process it, and send it to the ...

There are several critical machines or expensive equipment which suffer damage due to vibrations. In such a case, a vibration sensor is required to find out whether the machine or equipment is ...

In most electronic systems, it is necessary to provide information in the visual form for a convenient user interface. The most commonly used displays in electronic systems are LED, LCD and TFT.

Arduino is very helpful for people who have little knowledge of programming or electronics. The user does not need to understand the hardware or the low level coding of the AVR controller. Arduino is ...

As from 19th January 2015, the various sketches below "time out" if they don't enter programming mode after 50 attempts. The code displays a dot for every attempt, so if it fails you will see ...