A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an old Speak and Spell that you want to repurpose ...

In recent years, integrated platforms equipped with microcontrollers (with Arduino probably being the best-known brand) have been gaining popularity.

Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference 2026 March 4, 2026 3:20 PM ESTCompany ParticipantsJean-Marc Chery ...

Back in 2024, Renesas first released the RA0E1, an ultra-low-power Cortex-M23 MCU designed for cost-sensitive applications, followed by the RA0E2, with ...

This simple 4093-based audio peak detector from December 2004 monitors music and turns on a small light when the sound gets ...

For a late-1990s engineer with good soldering skills, many a free pint of beer could be earned by installing modchips on the game consoles of the day. Modchips were usually a small microcontroller ...

Refer to the circuit diagram below for the complete wiring layout. The Raspberry Pi Pico WhatsApp messaging system reads the ...

Type a sentence into the input bar at the top of the Serial Monitor and hit Enter to send it to the Wit.ai API. The console will log " Requesting TTS " followed by " Buffer ready, starting playback ," ...

Let’s start with the simple case: performing an action only when the switch goes active. We’ll assume the switch starts in ...

What if the smartest part of a product is not the product itself but the tiny subsystem quietly making decisions and talking back? Designing the future ...

There may be a fungus on your future bill of materials if mushroom-based memristors become a viable memory element.