Wafer level chips are cheap and very tiny, but as [Kevin Darrah] shows, vulnerable to bright light without the protective plastic casings standard on other chip packages. We covered a similar ...

Learning how to do everything on the Arduino can get a little tricky when you're working with a lot of parts. Thankfully, Arduino forum member Romano d'Ezzelino has put together a series of reference ...

Microcontrollers existed before the Arduino, and a device that anyone could program and blink an LED existed before the first Maker Faire. This might come as a surprise to some, but for others PICs ...

Come and get started with Arduino, a user-friendly microcontroller platform that will allow you to build anything from a weather station to a wearable electronics device. This session will provide a ...

Bluetooth® Low Energy (Bluetooth® LE or BLE) is a low-power, short-range wireless communication technology that is ideal for use on the Internet of Things (IoT). BLE is designed for small and distinct ...

Intel has launched the Genuino 101 maker board, which will be known as the Arduino 101 inside the USA. This is the first widely available development board based on the tiny, low-power Intel Curie ...

This year at CES, Intel introduced Curie — a button-sized system-on-chip module made for low-power wearables — but the company was mum on what would be the first products to use it. Now we know. Intel ...