Before I start talking about this really cool thing called Arduino (Italian for "good friend"), let me say a few things about the fascinating subject of physical computing. Physical computing has been ...

The Arduino is an excellent first embedded development kit, provides a great introduction to electronics, and has the potential to get children into programming. [David] thinks throwing C at ...

Your favorite gadgets are composed of all sorts of circuits, boards, and switches. Figuring out how they all work already seems like a Herculean effort, much more so if you try to put together ...

Arduino is the now-famous microcontroller that has set a portion of the maker community free to design amazing creations. The Arduino board and platform is fairly simple, but it can be intimidating to ...

There’s one big problem with the Arduino development environment, also known as an IDE: There’s no network hookup to directly share and browse code you’re writing for these little microcontrollers. It ...

I always like projects that bring the Raspberry Pi and Arduino together, however gently. It's what the world needs, a bit more harmony. Check out this little one on GPIO programming on a Raspberry Pi ...

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