If you were to point to a single device responsible for much of Hackaday’s early success, it might be the Arduino Uno. The ...

The design example shows OTA firmware update performed on a microcontroller using the "staging + copy" method.

There are two UNIVAC 1219B computers that have survived since the 1960s and one of them is even operational. [Nathan Farlow] wanted to run a Minecraft server on it, so he did. After a lot of work, ...

Five new Elektor courses help beginners take their first steps in microcontroller programming with Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi Pico. Each course combines hands-on projects, hardware kits, and ...

The Raspberry Pi RP2350 is a microcontroller chip designed for low-power, low-latency applications. While it’s a big step up from the older RP2040 chip, it’s still not exactly a speed demon. But what ...

This embedded system project aimed at designing a digital lock using the CodeVisionAVR or Atmel Studio. The system utilizes an AVR microcontroller (ATmega32) to integrate RFID technology for secure ...

Microcontroller units (MCUs) are single-chip computers optimized for performing embedded computing tasks like controlling a coffee machine or a medical device, an industrial robot, or an electric ...

What if you could strip away the layers of abstraction that operating systems impose and interact directly with your computer’s hardware? Imagine crafting a program where every instruction is executed ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Every so often, someone creates or changes a programming language. In the process, these language creators make a number of design choices. They may wonder whether to check certain conditions at ...

Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” or “esolang,” ...

Innatera Nanosystems BV, a leading developer of neuromorphic processors that roughly mimic the functioning of the human brain, today announced the launch of Pulsar, its first commercially available ...