Build innovative ESP32 projects with these five practical ideas. Create a custom crypto ticker, wire up an MQ2 gas sensor, and use an e-paper screen.

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 ...

Build your own ESP32 and ESP8266 projects this weekend. We detail 10 practical IoT builds, including a Wi-Fi weather station using a DHT22.

One of the nicest amenities of interpreted programming languages is that you can test out the code that you’re developing in a shell, one line at a time, and see the results instantly. No matter how ...

Texas Instruments says its very, very, very small microcontroller is suitable for devices such as electric toothbrushes, stylus pens and wearables. Texas Instruments says it has shrunk the size of the ...

Characteristics and contrasts with microprocessors. Hints on selecting and deploying microcontrollers. What might be on the horizon for microcontrollers, especially the competition between Von Neumann ...

Most smart gadgets still need the internet for anything that smells like intelligence, since the most powerful models live in the cloud. Edge device companies want the thinking to happen on the device ...

DigiKey and Arduino will award four contestants with a custom, dream-lab package valued at approximately $5,000 each. The lab ...

NOVI’s space-rated flight computer has an AMD Versal adaptive system-on-chip (SoC) and the VORAGO Arm Cortex-M4, and will fly a space mission this fall. AUSTIN, Texas – Space computing experts at NOVI ...

South Korean chipmaker LX Semicon has begun mass production of a microcontroller for Hyundai Motor and Kia. The chip marks the company's “first” commercial product from its automotive motor control ...

Piezoelectric buzzers find wide use in embedded systems for audible-signal generation. You can drive a piezoelectric element directly from a microcontroller’s I/O pins, but the maximum voltage rating ...