Ensuring the safety of loved ones—especially children and the elderly—is a constant concern for families. While caregivers want to stay connected and responsive at all times, it is practically ...

What happens when you combine an Arduino-based microcontroller with a palm-sized aluminum box and clicky buttons? A fidget toy that invites coder creativity. I’m PCMag’s home theater and AR/VR expert, ...

CircuitPython is Adafruit's branch of MicroPython designed to simplify experimentation and education on low-cost microcontrollers. It makes it easier than ever to ...

I am leaving this blog to spend more time making things in the workshop and, hopefully, finally mastering FreeCad – amongst other mountains to climb (both intellectual and physical). So this is a ...

Learn Python-based motor control, sensors, and feedback loops. Ideal for beginners exploring robotics programming with Python. The idea of controlling a robot using only a few lines of code may seem ...

There have been many development boards recently built around the ESP32-S3. Most development boards come with a display, some also include cameras and buttons, and a few have speakers and microphones.

Teensy 4.0 and 4.1 Cortex-M7 development boards are to be manufactured by SparkFun Electronics. The boards are attractive because they offer a combining a powerful (600MHz dual-issue superscaler) ...

Have you ever found yourself wishing for a development board that packs a punch without taking up too much space? Whether you’re a DIY enthusiast tinkering with your next big idea, a student eager to ...

Raspberry Pi has stepped up its chip development with a quad core microcontroller with two ARM Cortex-M33 cores and two in-house RISC-V cores. The $5 Raspberry Pi Pico 2 board uses the RISC-V RP2350 ...

As much as we enjoy spinning up our own solutions, there are times when you’ve got to look at what’s on the market and realize you might be out of your league. For example, take Bluetooth game ...