Imagine you’re stuck on a desert island, hundreds of miles away from the nearest person, and you finally have time to finish that project you’re working on. You have a single microcontroller, but ...

The age of ARM microcontrollers for the electronics hobbyist is upon us, and luckily there are a few breadboard-friendly microcontrollers available in a DIP package. One of these chips is NXP’s ...

The project is known as MUIO Interface where a homebrew microcontroller board operates over USB and requires no programming to get started making it easy to use. The board is featuring everything from ...

MicroPython is a compact implementation of the Python 3 programming language designed to work with microcontrollers. Initially announced back in 2013 as part of a Kickstarter project created by Damien ...

Microprocessor is the Central Processing Unit (CPU) of embedded system. It does arithmetic and logic operations of the digital binary data.Very old embedded systems circuit/board was generally made up ...

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 has introduced the MPLAB PICkit Basic, an affordable and versatile in-circuit debugger designed to simplify programming and debugging for engineers, hobbyists, and students. The ...

ST Visual Develop 3.0 is the latest version of the popular STVD7 Integrated Development Environment for ST7 MCU applications, and now provides advanced build, debug, and program features in a single ...

Characteristics and contrasts with microprocessors. Hints on selecting and deploying microcontrollers. What might be on the horizon for microcontrollers, especially the competition between Von Neumann ...