A few weeks ago, I was browsing Tindie on one of my daily trawls for something interesting to write about. I came across something I hadn’t seen before. The Mensch Microcomputer is a product from ...

Semiconductor chip controlling electrical products "Microcontroller (microcomputer)"Is a powerful expression of the convenience of our lives, television remote control, rice cooker timer, smartphone ...

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, ...

LONDON — Startup Energy Micro AS (Oslo, Norway) has launched its first products, the EFM32 family of microcontrollers, otherwise known as Gecko, with the claim the microcontrollers offer more than ...

OSLO, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Energy Micro has announced that Aquiba, a joint venture between Sentec and Takahata Precision, has selected Energy Micro’s energy friendly EFM32 Gecko microcontroller ...

[Juan] sent us his writeup of a microcomputer he built using an Arduino UNO (AVR ATmega328p) and some off-board SRAM. This one’s truly minimalistic. Have a look at the schematics (PDF). There’s an ...

I am in the process of updating my book "Electronics Explained," published by Newnes/Elsevier. The book is essentially a basic electronics text for those learning about electronics for the first time.