Build innovative ESP32 projects with these five practical ideas. Create a custom crypto ticker, wire up an MQ2 gas sensor, and use an e-paper screen.

2016 was a great year for Open Hardware. The Open Source Hardware Association released their certification program, and late in the year, a few silicon wizards met in Mountain View to show off the ...

Build a custom ESP32-S3 retro gaming console that plays classic Nintendo and Sega titles. This project uses a 2.4-inch IPS ...

There are quite a few microcontroller options on the market, from Arduino and Raspberry Pi to Espressif’s ESP32 platform. Personally, I'm not too fussed about Arduino or Raspberry Pi—here’s why my ...

DCF77 is a German VLF transmitting station that broadcasts a time signal across Europe on 77.5 kHz. Thus a common sight in a ...

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 1970, Caltech professor Carver Mead coined the term Moore’s Law, which is, in layman’s terms, a trend in computing hardware that the number of transistors that can be conveniently and inexpensively ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

If you're into microcontrollers, you've probably heard of the ESP32. This $5 microcontroller can be easily mistaken for an Arduino with networking capabilities, but it's so much more than that. Those ...

Texas Instruments has officially unveiled the MSPM0C1104, which it claims to be the world’s smallest microcontroller. This remarkable device measures a mere 1.38 mm², which is only slightly larger ...

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, ...