When people set out to learn to program, they often get mired in a lot of choices. What programming language should I learn? What will get me hired? What frameworks do I need to know? It goes on and ...

I find that I learn an immense amount of information by using examples — seeing how other people do things and understanding the “why” of their decision-making process. With this in mind, and by ...

One of the first projects that most people do on an Arduino is to light up or flash an LED. It seems ultra-simple because it ...

The Arduino open-source platform is an excellent way to create your own home and hobby electronics projects from scratch. The logic boards sold under the Arduino brand are receptive to all kinds of ...

When [Doug] moved into his new house, he found an old alarm panel set up — but it had no monitoring service any more. Not wanting to pay a monthly fee to have it setup, he decided to try interfacing ...

As we discussed in my previous column, until a few weeks ago, the Arduino Uno microcontroller development board we’ve all grown to know and love was the R3 (“Revision 3”). This little rascal is ...

It’s possible to write one’s programs in such a way that they can accommodate an overflow/wraparound condition in the millis() function, but how does this actually work? It’s possible to write one’s ...

When it comes to performance, there's a world of difference between the Raspberry Pi and Arduino. The former, after all, is technically a fully functional computer that can run games, word processors, ...