Turning an Arduino of virtually any sort into a simple AVR 6-pin ISP programmer is old hat. But when Atmel came out with a series of really tiny AVR chips, the ATtiny10 and friends with only six pi… ...

So he tried his hand with some really small SMD parts by building this USB to serial Arduino programmer. The chip he went with isn’t the FTDI part we’re used to. Instead of using an FT232RL ...

Arduino’s chips are used by hobbyists to build custom electronics and by educational institutions to teach students programming. The company also has a substantial enterprise installed base.

There are many reasons to build your own Arduino circuit on a protoboard or a custom-designed printed circuit board. At the heart of the Arduino platform is an AVR microcontroller, in usual way you ...

Enough with the learning let’s get our hands working and build a custom ICSP cable to program/bootload an Arduino, an ATMEGA328P (chip used in Arduino UNO) , or any other AVR microcontroller. Things ...

A Texas Instruments ARM-based chip means hardware hackers who like Arduino will have another choice besides Intel's Quark for computing projects. Heads up, Intel: TI chips bring ARM to Arduino ...

School kids and hardware enthusiasts who want to start tinkering with Intel’s tiny Curie chip will be able to get their hands on it early next year in the form of an Arduino development board ...

Intel. Intel’s Curie SOC for wearables. The chip is built for wearable devices like a smart pendant or smart bracelet, but it could go into just about any small gadget that doesn’t need a lot ...

Arduino mircocontrollers are pretty awesome. Without the help of an Arduino chip, there would be so many robots and hacks that GeekTech would never have had the pleasure to write about., Using an ...