The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980. They’ve since discontinued that line, but it lives on in the low-cost STC8 family of chips, which is ...

Arduino recently announced that their Cloud Editor now includes an AI assistant based on Anthropic’s Claude large language model (LLM). The AI assistant is designed to make the coding experience ...

The library gives control over up to 16 parallel working PIR devices over I2C. The idea for this library came up in a discussion about how to fully cover an area with PIR sensors without blind spots ...

For over 5 years, Arthur has been professionally covering video games, writing guides and walkthroughs. His passion for video games began at age 10 in 2010 when he first played Gothic, an immersive ...

The Arduino Plug and Make Kit provides a 10-minute, cloud-based IoT solution that includes QWIIC and smartphone-based sensors, transducers, and actuators. Arduino’s new QWIIC-based UNO Plug and Make ...

I recently had to build an infrared close proximity sensor that could tell if something was dropped in a parcel delivery drop box. After some searching, I ended up using a microcontroller and a piece ...

Arduino is a good platform if you want to start working with electronics. The platform, specifically the Arduino Nano family, is a set of small form-factor boards that act as microcontrollers, meaning ...

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Abstract: In an era where homeowners frequently leave for work or education, robust security for residences is imperative. Traditional security measures, including window and door locks, present ...