Boards Recap: From No Chips to New Chips, 2021 Has Been the Craziest Year
Struggling to find your favorite microcontroller, or even buy a new car this year? Here’s why everything is suddenly out of stock.
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How to Kit Out Your Smart Home Without Big Data and Privacy Snooping
If you want to stay private, you’ve got to DIY it.
So Many Choices: Our Favorite Makers Weigh in on Their Go-To Dev Boards
Dev boards give makers limitless options for their projects. Some of our high-tech pals share their personal processes to pick a board.
A Chip Is Born: RP2040-Based Boards Go From 0 to 60+ With Impressive Speed
The microcontroller market — where chips designed for real-time embedded use are placed into development boards typically referred to as “microcontrollers” themselves — 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. […]
Pi’s The Limit: Eben Upton on Raspberry Pi’s Exciting Year — and Their New Pi Zero 2 W
Raspberry Pi’s CEO talks with Make: about custom silicon, the Pico microcontroller, their new Pi Zero 2 W, and lots more.
Hacking Garbage Trucks to Bring Broadband to Those in Need
What if cities collected real-time information that got services to the people who need them most? And what if they could do it faster AND cheaper?
Play the Piper for Pi Day
Shree Bose shares Piper Make, a browser-based coding platform based on the Raspberry PI Pico and a block-programming interface based on Google Blockly. This new product launches on Pi Day 2021.