Perhaps without many of us realising it, our single board computers perform the task of making programming their processor or SoC a lot easier. They take care of setting the right lines or commands to ...

Don’t you just hate it when dev boards have some annoying little quirk that makes them harder to use than they should be? Take the ESP32-CAM, a board that started appearing on the market in early 2019 ...

I’ve worked with hardware before, so the electronics themselves were never the problem. What consistently slowed me down was the software side. C, C++, and the Arduino ecosystem always felt like too ...

ESP32 boards are tiny, but don't let that deceive you—they're incredible.

Programming electronic systems is easier than ever. MicroPython makes it simple to program affordable MCUs, from the ...

Open-hardware platforms enable rapid prototyping and faster time-to-market of new IoT applications. The objective of this post is to give a brief introduction to another open-hardware IoT playground — ...

The Arduino Alvik is a small rolling robot that is programmed via an Arduino Nano ESP32 and has an STM32 Arm Cortex-M4. Alvik is intended as a learning platform for children, providing an introduction ...

Many visually impaired people identify currency notes by touching them. But as people grow older, their touch sensitivity may gradually decrease, making it difficult to recognise the correct ...

Microcontrollers are surprisingly useful for Home Assistant projects ...