BBC Micro:Bit Coming Soon to Adafruit and the USA
The BBC Micro:Bit, once only available to kids in the UK, will soon be available to a much wider audience through Adafruit.
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A Quick Rundown on Adafruit’s Feather Ecosystem
Adafruit began their Feather ecosystem endeavor last year with the introduction of the Feather 32u4 Basic Proto, a tiny (51mm×23mm×8mm) development board outfitted with an ATmega32u4 SoC, 20 GPIO pin-out and an onboard prototyping section. What made the board unique was its integrated battery charger (for LiPo batteries), making it a portable board that could […]
Making a Pizza Box MIDI Controller with Conductive Paint
Paint a fun and funky MIDI input device for making music on a pizza box.
How to Design a Microcontroller Circuit
This article will focus primarily on the circuit design considerations of incorporating an ARM Cortex-M microcontroller.
12 Specs to Consider When Choosing a Microcontroller for Your Product
Don’t know the first thing about microcontrollers? Well, here are some basics.
Why I’m Excited That Microchip Is Buying Atmel
Microchip and Atmel’s merge will hopefully yield a combination of the best of the AVR and PIC worlds — so what does this mean for embedded development?
Carbon Origins: From Hobbyist Rockets to a Space Tech Business
The founders of Carbon Origins moved to the desert to launch rockets. It was harder than they expected.