When people set out to learn to program, they often get mired in a lot of choices. What programming language should I learn? What will get me hired? What frameworks do I need to know? It goes on and ...

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 ...

Usually, I use the Serial Monitor of the Arduino IDE to communicate with the Arduino hardware. But now, I want to build an application on my computer that allows me to click some buttons to control ...

The Arduino ecosystem is an amazing learning tool, but even those of us who love it admit that even the simplified C Arduino ...

The most basic Arduino programming takes as little as five minutes. An Arduino-made board comes equipped with a blinking light right out of the box. Plug the board into your computer through a USB ...

Youngsters interested in technology might get a kick out of working with real computer hardware and software during their summer break. Parents, relatives, and friends have many ways to get these kids ...

At IDF last month, Intel previewed its latest small chip initiative, Quark. Slotting in well below the Atom line, much less Haswell, Quark is aimed at that old chestnut, "the Internet of things." We ...

Despite a wealth of tutorials for setting up and writing code for the ESP8266 WiFi module, there has not been much of anything on programming this cheap wireless module with the Arduino IDE. Finally, ...

The whole thing worked because of all the generous people who have written Arduino code, and also code to adapt the basic Arduino stuff to work with alternative chips from the Microchip was Atmel) AVR ...