New AVR Programming Book from MAKE
Our latest book, Elliot Williams‘ Make: AVR Programming, is now available in the Maker Shed. To get a taste of the book, check out the excerpt we’ve posted.
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Vol. 36 is Here!
MAKE Vol. 36 goes on sale today. The new issue take a look at the exploding market of boards and microcontrollers. The Arduino and Raspberry Pi have ushered in a whole new generation boards tailor-made for making.
A new micro-controller board at the Saint Malo Mini-Maker Faire
Uroš Petrevski and Draško Drašković, two makers from Paris, used the Saint Malo mini-Maker Faire to unveiled a new board, the WeIO.
The Arduino Yún 云 is Now Available
Announced earlier in the year at Maker Faire Bay Area the Arduino Yún, the first Linux-based Arduino board, is now available for purchase at a cost of €52 (approximately $69) from the Arduino store.
Which Pi do I have?
The Raspberry Pi isn’t just a single board any more, there are a growing number of different variants available. Unfortunately they all look rather similar, and sometimes it can be important which board is which. Fortunately there are a number of ways to figure out which board you have.
The Monday Jolt: Bricktronics Expands the Possibilities of Lego
The Monday Jolt is a new column about microcontrollers and electronics that appears in MAKE every Monday morning. Lego Mindstorms NXT is a fantastic educational robotics set that teaches kids and adults skills ranging from engineering to programming. Nevertheless, wouldn’t it be cool to enhance those Lego robots with Arduino boards and shields? With that […]
Ask MAKE: Physical Computing Taxonomy
I hear a lot words — embedded system, microcontroller, system on a chip, computer on a chip — used somewhat interchangeably. What are the differences, if any? And where do Arduino and Raspberry Pi fit?
