Making an Arduino shield can be simpler than you think. This time I designed one to program Attiny and Atmega microcontrollers, that way I don't have to use a breadboard and make the wiring to program ...

The bootloader looks for byte in eeprom at address 0x1FF: -if it is set to 0xF0 bootloader will look for a bin file on the sdcard named firmware.bin and use it to flash the firmware then reset the ...

Abstract: This paper presents the development of a multiple control system for a smart agriculture farm that integrates automation and IoT-based monitoring to optimize irrigation and fertigation ...

Halloween is about tricks and treats, but who wouldn’t fancy a bit to drink with that? [John Sutley] decided to complete his Halloween party with a drink dispenser looking as though it was dumped by a ...

Halogen lights are great — they produce lots of bright warm light, but they suck a lot of juice to run. [Sven] had found a nice floor lamp years ago that was in pretty rough shape — his wife ...

Qualcomm takes over Arduino, a manufacturer known for its microcontroller boards. Qualcomm is presenting its first single-board computer for DIY projects directly on the occasion of the takeover: the ...

Qualcomm has just signed an agreement to acquire Arduino, and the goal of the purchase is to “combine Qualcomm’s leading-edge products and technologies with Arduino’s vast ecosystem and community to ...

Have you ever wanted to build your own IoT-based Weather Monitoring Station? Imagine monitoring real-time temperature, humidity levels, atmospheric pressure, rainfall detection, air quality index (AQI ...

You mostly do not need to worry about pitfalls of concurrent processing (races, deadlocks, livelocks, resource sharing, etc.). The fact of cooperative processing takes care of such issues by design.