2016 was a great year for Open Hardware. The Open Source Hardware Association released their certification program, and late in the year, a few silicon wizards met in Mountain View to show off the ...

Let’s say you’re working on a project, and you need a microcontroller. Which chip do you reach for? Probably the one you’re most familiar with, or at least the one whose programmer is hiding away in a ...

Instrument designs featuring a digital display may benefit from a secondary display that provides an analog version of the displayed parameter. A bar-graph display provides an easily interpreted ...

The Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller is generally available, meaning the chip can now be picked up from resellers rather ...

In its introductory blog post, the company explains that today’s Raspberry Pis are already often used alongside a smaller microcontroller: The Raspberry Pi takes care of heavyweight computation, ...

A microcontroller-based AI called "Max the Dog" plays chess on Lichess against challengers. The main feature is an LED array showing Dog's thought process and errors. The source code is available to ...

Selecting the right microcontroller for a product can be a daunting task. Not only are there a number of technical features to consider, there are also business case issues such as cost and lead-times ...

The Open Compute Project (OCP), a nonprofit organization that exchanges data center product designs and best practices across businesses, recently published its Open Rack Version 3 (ORV3) ...

Chipmaker STMicroelectronics launched what it claimed was the industry’s first 18nm microcontroller for high-performance applications, which SpaceX selected for use on its Starlink satellite ...

Texas Instruments has officially unveiled the MSPM0C1104, which it claims to be the world's smallest microcontroller. This remarkable device measures a mere 1.38 mm², which is only slightly larger ...