[Jacob Geigle] had a problem. A GPS unit and a Bluetooth-to-serial were tying up all the hardware UARTs on an AVR Arduino project. “Software serial”, I hear you say. But what if I told you ...

If you set the uart to 8,N,1, than you know that long strings of back-to-back characters will have a 10 between the characters, so you can use that to form tones and vice versa.

Arduino, maker of the open source hardware platform of the same name, is teaming up with a startup called Sharebot to sell a 3D printer for about $1,000.. Announced today, Materia 101 will be ...

The new Arduino hardware offers a small and straightforward USB to UART converter with digital isolator, working between 2.5V and 5V up to 3Mboud, complete with an Arduino Pro mini connector.

XLR8 is a drop-in replacement for an Arduino Uno, but with a twist. It is an Arduino-compatible board that uses a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) as the main processing chip.

On-board jumpers allow the transmitter and receiver to be connected to a choice of Arduino I/O pins – default is Tx is connected to UART Serial pin 1 and Rx to UART Serial pin 0. The associated ...