Normally when we bring you news of a retrocomputing design, it will centre around a single processor. At its heart will be a 6502, a Z80, or perhaps a 6809. There will be a host of support chips, some ...

Arduino is a microcomputer board developed with the aim of making it easy for even beginners to use. It consists of a board with input and output, a microcomputer (MCU), Arduino's own language, and a ...

There are so many nice hacks in [Joekutz]’s retro LED display project that it’s hard to know where to start. There’s his DIY LED display controlled by an Arduino UNO. To have some text or picture for ...

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 ...

Open source hardware just keeps getting better and better. With open source taking over the low-end, closed-source players jump into the game to try to hold onto the entry market and then open-source ...