Freescale's Freedom Development Platform for the Cortex-M0+ Kinetis family supports Arduino shields. These boards provides access to a wide range of peripherals. The FRDM-KL02Z (Fig. 1) hosts the tiny ...

WiFi and Bluetooth were never meant to be the radios used by a billion Internet of Things hats, umbrellas, irrigation systems, or any other device that makes a worldwide network of things interesting.

Microcontroller is a term you hear fairly often in the DIY landscape. Often confused with Single-Board Computers, MCUs like the Arduino series are integrated circuits designed for specific circuitry ...

A basic Arduino board adds creativity, flexibility, and interactivity to your home lab. It costs little but opens countless ...

Lots of programs take data from a file and create an X-Y graph under Linux. Desktop applications like xplot, gnuplot or even PHPlot do a great job. But, what if you want to see how a physical process ...

Arduino is an amazingly flexible microcontroller platform complete with hardware and software, designed so that even beginners can get started building eye-popping projects quickly and easily. The ...

The title says it all – this article describes a microcontroller-compatible current sensor module you can build yourself, using an inexpensive 8-pin chip as an ‘active shunt’ for measuring ac/dc ...

Real-time environmental monitoring is increasingly important in agriculture, industrial automation, smart homes, and healthcare. The real-time data monitoring ...