Imagine you’re stuck on a desert island, hundreds of miles away from the nearest person, and you finally have time to finish that project you’re working on. You have a single microcontroller, but ...

The age of ARM microcontrollers for the electronics hobbyist is upon us, and luckily there are a few breadboard-friendly microcontrollers available in a DIP package. One of these chips is NXP’s ...

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

Microcontroller programming is useful but complicated for makers. New tools can make it accessible to all When I designed the curriculum for my middle school Physical Computing course, I envisioned ...

The project is known as MUIO Interface where a homebrew microcontroller board operates over USB and requires no programming to get started making it easy to use. The board is featuring everything from ...

When creating microcontroller firmware, you often need to work with data arrays. Tables make easy work of data arrays, such as those for digital-code transformation, correction for sensor linearity, ...

MicroPython is a compact implementation of the Python 3 programming language designed to work with microcontrollers. Initially announced back in 2013 as part of a Kickstarter project created by Damien ...

Microprocessor is the Central Processing Unit (CPU) of embedded system. It does arithmetic and logic operations of the digital binary data.Very old embedded systems circuit/board was generally made up ...

For many years in the industrial automation sector, end-user petitions for openness and flexibility had been at odds with what suppliers were willing to offer. Especially in the case of digital ...

Characteristics and contrasts with microprocessors. Hints on selecting and deploying microcontrollers. What might be on the horizon for microcontrollers, especially the competition between Von Neumann ...