The microcontroller market โ where chips designed for real-time embedded use are placed into development boards typically referred to as “microcontrollers” themselves โ is rarely shaken up. If you want something friendly to beginners, you pick an Arduino with a Microchip ATmega328; if you want connectivity, an Espressif ESP32-based board; for performance, STMicro’s STM32 series. […]
Raspberry Pi’s CEO talks with Make: about custom silicon, the Pico microcontroller, their new Pi Zero 2 W, and lots more.
About ten years ago, we designed and made an Arduino shield implementing โcore memory,โ a technology that was sixty years old even then. Our shield stored 32 individual 1s or 0s using magnetic fields going either clockwise or anticlockwise around 32 tiny doughnuts of magnetisable โferriteโ material. This kind of memory, invented in the 1950s, […]
Python in physical computing is on the rise.
When Covid killed their live gigs, musical group ArcAttack pivoted to create their first DIY musical Tesla coil kit. Then the pandemic struck again.
Spark safely with these responsible Tesla coil tips from the pros
We aimed to make every repair possible for someone who had never been inside a computer before
