A few weeks ago, I was browsing Tindie on one of my daily trawls for something interesting to write about. I came across something I hadn’t seen before. The Mensch Microcomputer is a product from ...

Semiconductor chip controlling electrical products "Microcontroller (microcomputer)"Is a powerful expression of the convenience of our lives, television remote control, rice cooker timer, smartphone ...

LONDON — Startup Energy Micro AS (Oslo, Norway) has launched its first products, the EFM32 family of microcontrollers, otherwise known as Gecko, with the claim the microcontrollers offer more than ...

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, ...

I am in the process of updating my book "Electronics Explained," published by Newnes/Elsevier. The book is essentially a basic electronics text for those learning about electronics for the first time.

Port and Demonstration of uC/OS-II Included in Stellaris Development Kits The code provided by Micrium for the demo is a small multithreaded application which uses select features of uC/OS-II and the ...

[Juan] sent us his writeup of a microcomputer he built using an Arduino UNO (AVR ATmega328p) and some off-board SRAM. This one’s truly minimalistic. Have a look at the schematics (PDF). There’s an ...