You might think that a microcontroller would be needed to handle a vending machine’s logic. For one thing, only the correct change should activate them and the wrong change should be returned. If the ...

2016 was a great year for Open Hardware. The Open Source Hardware Association released their certification program, and late in the year, a few silicon wizards met in Mountain View to show off the ...

Texas Instruments says its very, very, very small microcontroller is suitable for devices such as electric toothbrushes, stylus pens and wearables. Texas Instruments says it has shrunk the size of the ...

The maker of the Raspberry Pi single board computer has released the new Raspberry Pi Pico, a microcontroller board built on Raspberry Pi's own RP2040 silicon. That makes the Raspberry Pi Pico ...

If you're into microcontrollers, you've probably heard of the ESP32. This $5 microcontroller can be easily mistaken for an Arduino with networking capabilities, but it's so much more than that. Those ...

Running a language model on an $8 ESP32 S3 microcontroller might seem improbable, but The Stack demonstrates how it’s possible through a combination of hardware-aware optimizations and creative ...

Most smart gadgets still need the internet for anything that smells like intelligence, since the most powerful models live in the cloud. Edge device companies want the thinking to happen on the device ...

There are quite a few microcontroller options on the market, from Arduino and Raspberry Pi to Espressif’s ESP32 platform. Personally, I'm not too fussed about Arduino or Raspberry Pi—here’s why my ...

DigiKey and Arduino will award four contestants with a custom, dream-lab package valued at approximately $5,000 each. The lab ...

In its introductory blog post, the company explains that today’s Raspberry Pis are already often used alongside a smaller microcontroller: The Raspberry Pi takes care of heavyweight computation, ...