Category: Mcu

Author: Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio The nRF52840 SoC of Nordic Semiconductor is based on a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4F CPU running at 64 MHz with flash and RAM integrated on chip. Ultra low-power wireless applications can use this advanced multi-protocol SoC with different communication...

Arduino compatible, Atmel SAM D21 chip, open source! This is one of the smallest ARM powered boards in the world. If you are ready to transition away from AVR 8-bit hardware to the very powerful ARM 32-bit stuff, this is the way to learn! The board design, schematic, and parts lists...

An ultra low power LoRa sensor node powered by just one CR2032 batter. By Harm Wouter Snippe: Do you want to measure temperature, connect a soil humidity sensor in your vegetable garden or monitor the air quality at your street corner? With the Fennec Development Board you are able to...

A dirt cheap open hardware USB-JTAG board designed to program TinyFPGA A1 and A2 boards. by Luke Valenty @ hackaday.io: One of the goals of the TinyFPGA boards is to make FPGAs cheaper to use. The #TinyFPGA A-Series boards are the first TinyFPGA boards and are designed to be the least...

Make Your Own Pic Programmer and Debugger. by reviahh @ reviahh.wordpress.com After using the Microchip tools to program and debug the projects I work on, I wondered about creating my own programming/debugging module that I could put on my own boards – just like Microchip does with...

Milan, Italy, July 26, 2017 (Newswire.com) - Next Industries show off The Tactigon: the perfect link between humans or objects and the digital world, with its IMU 3D features, environmental sensors and Bluetooth 4.0 technology. The Tactigon is a unique platform, programmable with...

Fidget spinner became a popular toy earlier in 2017. Most of us have one or at least have tried it. Consists of a bearing surrounded by a three-lobed flat structure, it can spin along its axis with a little effort. Makers and hardware hackers always try to employ different tools to...

MellBell, the Canadian-based hardware and electronics company, has launched their first product: Arduino PICO! At first, the company says that Arduino PICO is the smallest Arduino compatible board ever, since it is 0.6" x 0.6" inch sized (~15mm squared). This tiny fully-fledged...