You might think that a microcontroller would be needed to handle a vending machine’s logic. For one thing, only the correct change should activate them and the wrong change should be returned. If the ...

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One of the nicest amenities of interpreted programming languages is that you can test out the code that you’re developing in a shell, one line at a time, and see the results instantly. No matter how ...

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Build a custom Matter smart home display to control devices directly without a central hub. This guide uses an ESP32C6 to ...

Texas Instruments says its very, very, very small microcontroller is suitable for devices such as electric toothbrushes, stylus pens and wearables. Texas Instruments says it has shrunk the size of the ...

The maker of the Raspberry Pi single board computer has released the new Raspberry Pi Pico, a microcontroller board built on Raspberry Pi's own RP2040 silicon. That makes the Raspberry Pi Pico ...

Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He ...

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, ...

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