Making an Arduino shield can be simpler than you think. This time I designed one to program Attiny and Atmega ...

Making airplanes with foam board is really handy since this material is very cheap, easy to work with, and durable. It's the same material the channel Flite Test uses in their builds. I recently tried ...

Conferences and tradeshows are a staple of Silicon Valley, with no shortage of billboards along the Highway 101 corridor between San Francisco and San Jose announcing the next date and location. As ...

This repository contains a customized version of the Arduino bootloader firmware with watchdog timer (WDT) support. The stock Arduino bootloader introduces a couple of seconds of delay during boot in ...

Optiboot is now installed by default on the Arduino Uno. It can be installed on all older mega8, 168 or 328 based Arduinos. Optiboot is "compatible", in a loose sense, with all versions of the Arduino ...

SparkFun Thing Plus - ESP32-C5 is an Adafruit Feather-compatible board with dual-band WiFi 6, BLE, 802.15.4 radio, and LiPo battery support ...

When I wrote about a DIY ESP32-S3 internet radio last week, "raspbeguy" commented he'd rather choose an ESP32-based DIY DAB+ ...

While the x86 architecture certainly isn’t going away anytime soon, it seems that each year more and more of our computing is done on ARM processors. It started with our smartphones, spread into ...

Have you ever wanted to see the computers behind the first (and for now only) man-made objects to leave the heliosphere?

This standard describes the Heterogeneous System Architecture Intermediate Language (HSAIL), which is a virtual machine and an intermediate language. An HSA implementation consists of: • Hardware ...

Five new Elektor courses help beginners take their first steps in microcontroller programming with Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi Pico. Each course combines hands-on projects, hardware kits, and ...

Windows will fail to boot correctly if the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) file is corrupted or deleted accidentally. As such, any task involving a change or modification in the bootloader settings ...