Freescale's Freedom Development Platform for the Cortex-M0+ Kinetis family supports Arduino shields. These boards provides access to a wide range of peripherals. The FRDM-KL02Z (Fig. 1) hosts the tiny ...

One DIYer has decided that a regular Arduino just wasn’t enough, so he built one six times the size. One DIYer has decided that a regular Arduino just wasn’t enough, so he built one six times the size ...

Rabid Prototypes has taken to Kickstarter once again to launch their 14th campaign to raise the required funds to take their new electronic Tachyon Microcontroller development board into production.

The Arduino 101 equipped with Intel's Curie module integrates a 6-axis gyro/accelerometer and Bluetooth, which sets it apart from the rest of the Arduino line up. What the heck is an Arduino? Simply ...

In this eighth installment of the article series, we will tackle on open source platforms intended for hobbyists and educational organizations. The most popular open source platform today is the ...

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 ...

Over the last decade, the open-source movement has not only transformed the world of software, but also catalyzed a sweeping revolution in hardware tinkering. At the heart of this shift lies a ...

PIC, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi: If you can work with these three types of systems, then you can connect with just about anything Microcontrollers (MCUs) can be very handy, but without the ability to ...