One of the nicest amenities of interpreted programming languages is that you can test out the code that you’re developing in a shell, one line at a time, and see the results instantly. No matter how ...

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 ...

As computer systems become more and more ubiquitous in everyday items, the workings of those items will require some sort of digital controlling. Controllers that once handled large mechanical systems ...

The ESP32 does everything a Pi Pico does, but costs less and lasts 100x longer on batteries ...

The ESP32 is a type of cheap, low-power microcontroller manufactured by Espressif Systems that is used in everything from homemade projects to academic, commercial, and industrial settings. If you’re ...

Integrating processors, sensors, and data exchange functionality into everyday objects, the Internet of Things (IoT) pushes computing capabilities far beyond desktops and servers, weaving computation ...

Selecting the right microcontroller for a product can be a daunting task. Not only are there a number of technical features to consider, there are also business case issues such as cost and lead-times ...

The maker of the Raspberry Pi single board computer has released the new Raspberry Pi Pico, a microcontroller board built on Raspberry Pi's own RP2040 silicon. That makes the Raspberry Pi Pico ...

A lack of standards in the tiny chips embedded in devices has hampered development and pushed up costs, but that state of affairs is changing, says Reinhard Keil. Smart metering will soon be ...

The low-power operation is done using a redesigned on-chip power management unit with a configurable, multichannel single-inductor multiple-output (SIMO) buck converter. You can send press releases ...