Your favorite gadgets are composed of all sorts of circuits, boards, and switches. Figuring out how they all work already seems like a Herculean effort, much more so if you try to put together ...

Before I start talking about this really cool thing called Arduino (Italian for "good friend"), let me say a few things about the fascinating subject of physical computing. Physical computing has been ...

Robot lawnmowers can be extremely pricey, even at the lower end of the market, setting you back quite a few hundred dollars. If you would prefer to make your own and learn a little more about Arduino ...

Technically, an open-source ecosystem is “open” in that anyone may contribute to and draw upon the work of an entire community of developers. Interestingly, open source has come to mean that the doors ...