We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There's a certain charm in seeing simple electronic systems at work. Don't you just get excited as you watch a mobile robot solve a maze or ...

Getting the third LED light to blink on was becoming a significant headache. Claudia Vargas and her classmates in the general science class at Endeavor Academy were building a light system using an ...

Lightweight, low-cost and flexible electronic systems are the key to next-generation smart technologies for military as well as consumer and commercial applications. An Air Force Research ...

A new flexible Arduino development board has been unveiled this month which has been developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory, to provide a lightweight low-cost and flexible electronic system ...

The Arduino board is a small-form microcontroller circuit board. At the time of this writing, a number of Arduino boards exist: Arduino UNO, Nano, Mega, Mini, Pro and others (see Resources for a ...

Steve Spence, an amateur organic farmer in Andrew, South Carolina, has a smart way of irrigating his vegetables. He uses water from his pond and the fish waste to fertilize his plants, a technique ...

Looking for a simple circuit to control the light intensity of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) or similar lighting sources? Here is an Arduino based circuit with three independent pulse width modulated ...

A circuit board for the masses: the Arduino microcontroller. Photo: James Day Check this out,” Massimo Banzi says. The burly, bearded engineer wanders over to inspect a chipmaking robot—a ...

To understand why Arduino is so popular, "open up an old cellphone or something," says Amanda Williams, a product designer based in Montreal. "No one ever intended you to see the circuit board on ...