In a move that could bring faster wireless capabilities to gadgets and Arduino boards, chip maker Atmel is buying wireless chip maker Newport Media for US$140 million. Atmel’s chips are widely used in ...

At the MakerFair Bay Area Expo in San Mateo, Ca. this weekend Atmel and Arduino took wraps off their jointly developed Arduino Zero, a 32-bit platform they are aiming ...

The Arduino has long been a staple of the maker community. Longer than 3D printing has been as popular as it is, in fact. So, ...

Arduino has today announced the launch of their new Arduino Zero, a powerful 32-bit extension of the platform established by the popular Arduino UNO development board. The Arduino Zero has been ...

The Internet is full of extremely clever people, and most of the time they don’t realize how stupid they actually are. Every time there’s a rocket launch, there’s usually a few cubesats tucked away ...

Since you lacked the USB interface in your own Arduino board, it becomes necessary to use a homemade/ready-made USB to Serial Converter Module as an efficient and economical solution. Inexpensive and ...

It just seemed fitting to start Open Sourced with the Arduino microcontroller. Arduino is an open-source microcontroller and development environment. It was originally for the hobbyist market, but as ...

Atmel recently released a new set of tools for developers targeting its microcontroller collection. The new Atmel Studio 7 C/C++ IDE is based on Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2015. Atmel started using ...

The long-awaited Arduino Due just hit the market, replacing the 8-bit, 16MHz brain of the popular Uno microcontroller prototyping platform with a 32-bit, 84MHz processor, while augmenting inputs and ...

The Ubuntu Linux distribution has been ported to the cheapest and most portable platform yet: An Atmel ATmega microcontroller. Boasting a 20MHz 8-bit AVR processor, 128KB of flash storage and a ...