At first glance, using a microcontroller for a simple fancy light project is overkill. However, the existing design can be modified later without additional hardware. Often a few extra code lines will ...

A very low-cost, high-performance microcontroller to embed in all your hardware projects. Today, the Raspberry Pi Foundation launched its first microcontroller-class product called the Raspberry Pi ...

I’m a huge fan of MCUs, and not such a fan of the full fat Raspberry Pi, since it’s a power hungry desktop computer that happens to have GPIO. Not that big a deal, and you have all the problems that ...

The Raspberry Pi Pico 2 is an upgraded version of the original Pico microcontroller, featuring enhanced performance, increased memory, improved power efficiency, and new security features. It retains ...

The maker of the Raspberry Pi single board computer has released the new Raspberry Pi Pico, a microcontroller board built on Raspberry Pi's own RP2040 silicon. That makes the Raspberry Pi Pico ...

Input devices can have an enormous impact on your user experience, especially as they relate to games. For retro games in particular, which were often designed with joysticks in mind, playing with any ...

This keyboard is the same size as the Pico board it's attached to and relies on for decoding. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying ...

Raspberry Pi was synonymous with single-board Linux computers. No longer. The $4 Raspberry Pi Pico board is their attempt to break into the crowded microcontroller module market. The microcontroller ...

With hackers and makers building custom computing devices that don’t necessarily follow conventional design paradigms, there’s been a growing demand for smaller and smaller keyboards. Many of the ...

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