After a youth spent playing with Amigas and getting into all sorts of trouble on the school computer network, I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for hardware from the 80s and 90s. This extends ...

If you are a software and hardware developer working with serial ports, you often need a reliable serial port monitor that allows you to capture, display, analyze, record, and replay all serial port ...

Before opening the Arduino software, wire up the Arduino according to the circuits page using the 8MHz minimalist breadboard circuit but with a 10k pull-up resistor on the reset pin (physical pin 1).

Despite their similar sizes and affordable prices, microcontrollers and single-board computers have vastly different specifications and use cases. After all, MCUs are designed for circuitry, ...

For electronics hobbyists, the open source chipset BeagleBoard that packs as much punch as a smartphone processor might seem like the key to paradise. Yet it is the relatively underpowered 8-bit ...

If you are looking for inspiration for your next Arduino project, would like to monitor your sleep patterns you may be interested in this DIY sleep monitor which has been created using a little ...

If you’ve done 3D printing, you’ve probably at least heard of Tinkercad. This popular CAD package runs in your browser and was rescued from oblivion by Autodesk a few years ago. [Chuck] recently did a ...

Now you can build your own room temperature monitor using an Arduino board. The circuit is a combination of an Arduino UNO board, LM35 temperature sensor, and a 16×2 Hitachi compatible LCD. It will ...