Category: Mcu

Never before have we been so incredibly connected to one another than today; thanks to the prevalence of internet and mobile data networks. But the dimension of this connected world is finite and ends not far beyond the outermost cell phone tower. John Grant wanted to be connected to his...

The new generation of programmers that use WiFi instead of cables. Program, control and monitor Robots, AVR and Arduino over WiFi. Have you ever thought of programming wirelessly ? WiLoader is the answer. But HOW ???? WiLoader easily connects to your WiFi network, then you can...

Max.K @ hackaday.io designed his own impressive watch based on Atmega328p with Arduino bootloader, Maxim DS3231 (<2min per year deviation),  96x96 pixel Sharp Memory LCD (LS013B4DN04) and it's powered by a CR2025 160mAh coin cell battery. Chronio is an Arduino-based 3D-printed...

Mike Rankin created this tiny sensor board with an ARM Cortex M0+ microcontroller and OLED display: It’s pretty tiny so a 4 layer board made the whole job easier. The top and bottom are pretty much dedicated for components, layer1 are tracks and power traces, layer2 is a ground...

A new low cost development board is available for pre-ordering at $20, it is called “pcDuino4 Nano”. pcDuino term comes from combining Mini PC with Arduino and it is a platform that runs PC-like OS such as Android ICS or Ubuntu. pcDuino boards can be used to learn programming and...

“WaRP7” is a new platform which increases developer’s opportunity to innovate and bring new products to the market by smoothing and speed up the development process of IoT applications and wearable technologies. WaRP7 is a $85 platform designed by “Farnell element14”. It...

Raj @ embedded-lab.com build an ESP8266 based led matrix display. This matrix is a modification of his previous bluetooth version and uses an ESP8266 as a web server to setup the display message. No other microcontroller is used to control the display so things are kept simple and...

byteparadigm.com has a nice introductory article on I2C and SPI protocols: Today, at the low end of the communication protocols, we find I²C (for ‘Inter-Integrated Circuit’, protocol) and SPI (for ‘Serial Peripheral Interface’). Both protocols are well-suited for...