If you want to try a Scratch-inspired take on microcontroller programming, check out MicroBlocks. It will work with several common boards, including the micro:bit and the Raspberry Pi Pico.

If you’ve ever wanted to program a microcontroller “in the cloud,” you might want to head over to Inventor Town, an online IDE that allows you to write and compile firmware for the MSP430 ...

However, there’s an equally impressive microcontroller family that most beginners – and even intermediate tech aficionados – aren’t familiar with. By that, I’m referring to Espressif ...

A recent EDN article dealt with a number of programming tips for embedded microcontrollers. One of those tips, using state machines, is a programming approach that is especially useful, yet probably ...

Microchip Technology's new PICkit 1 flash starter kit gives engineers and educational institutions an easy-to-use programmer, evaluation kit, and development package for 8- and 14-pin, flash-based ...

Renesas Introduces E8a Emulator, a Low-priced, Ultra-small Tool for Debugging Embedded Systems and Programming a Microcontroller's On-chip Flash Memory ...

Word just came in that Energy Micro in Oslo, Norway, is offering free samples to qualified engineers worldwide that want to test their latest, most efficient microcontroller ( ...

When students at Cornell University wanted to play Human Tetris (and ace a final project to boot), they taught a 20Mhz, 8-bit microcontroller how to follow their moves.

Developers using Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA's M16C microcontroller can now use Embedded C++ (EC++), courtesy of Tasking's M16C Software Development Toolset V2.1. The compiler in the ...