Usually, I use the Serial Monitor of the Arduino IDE to communicate with the Arduino hardware. But now, I want to build an application on my computer that allows me to click some buttons to control ...

Youngsters interested in technology might get a kick out of working with real computer hardware and software during their summer break. Parents, relatives, and friends have many ways to get these kids ...

Before I start talking about this really cool thing called Arduino (Italian for "good friend"), let me say a few things about the fascinating subject of physical computing. Physical computing has been ...

When people set out to learn to program, they often get mired in a lot of choices. What programming language should I learn? What will get me hired? What frameworks do I need to know? It goes on and ...

Judy Castro doesn’t have a background in engineering. But with Arduino, she doesn’t need one to make her sculptures move, light up or breathe fire. The San Francisco artist uses the microcontroller ...

The Arduino ecosystem is an amazing learning tool, but even those of us who love it admit that even the simplified C Arduino ...

Having had such quick success making a microcontroller project using an 8pin ATtiny85 and programming it with Arduino, I though I would try a more elaborate project, one that has been on the back ...

Despite a wealth of tutorials for setting up and writing code for the ESP8266 WiFi module, there has not been much of anything on programming this cheap wireless module with the Arduino IDE. Finally, ...

At IDF last month, Intel previewed its latest small chip initiative, Quark. Slotting in well below the Atom line, much less Haswell, Quark is aimed at that old chestnut, "the Internet of things." We ...