Arduino microcontrollers are popular in DIY and modding circles. But how can you put one to good use? We talk to Ladyada to find out.

You youngins probably don’t remember this, but a few years ago there was an arms race on Kickstarter to create the smallest Arduino-compatible microcontroller board. Since then, a few people ...

Arduino is an open-source microcontroller and development environment. It was originally for the hobbyist market, but as time has passed it’s gotten better. Arduino has now become a credible ...

Arduino, the open-source microcontroller platform, was originally designed with creative laypeople in mind, and it may be just the right tool to generate some new home and garden projects.

By editing a single setting in his Arduino boards.txt file., [Marcelo] was able to have his overclocked microcontroller read and reply to characters sent over a serial connection.

The Microduino mCookie is a stackable microcontroller that looks like a high-tech LEGO brick, with all the capabilities of an Arduino microcontroller and then some. It's also compatible with ...

The Arduino Due has a 32-bit ARM core (the Uno is 8-bit), an 84 Mhz CPU clock, 96 KB of SRAM, and more USB ports than the Uno. In short, it's a much more powerful microcontroller that can handle a ...

For years, the humble Arduino microcontroller—a cheap, open source, midnight-blue circuit board emblazoned with a tiny white infinity loop—has been a favorite tool of the DIY electronics crowd ...

With their cheap price tags, massive I/O provisions, and low power consumption, microcontrollers like the uber-popular Arduino family have diverse use cases, from simple automation projects to ...

Fundamentally, BeagleBoard and Arduino are two different systems: The former is a single-board computer, while the Arduino is just an 8-bit microcontroller.