While the Raspberry Pi has very good support for an I2C bus, a lot of very cool chips – including the in system programmer for just about every ATtiny and ATmega microcontroller – use an SPI bus.

For better or worse, pets often serve as inspiration and test subjects for hardware hacks: smarten up that hamster wheel, tweet the squirrel hunting adventures from a dog’s point of view, or automate ...

Programming electronic systems is easier than ever. MicroPython makes it simple to program affordable MCUs, from the ...

The new version of the easy, DIY PC is still cheap. Processor is faster and more powerful. True Ethernet for better network performance. Up to 4 GB of RAM opens up your computing possibilities.

The Raspberry Pi might sound like dessert, but it's actually a credit card–sized computer changing the world of DIY tech. First launched in 2012 by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, it was designed to make ...

Raspberry Pi, the bargain micro PC released earlier this year, has fertilised the imaginations of the public, bringing with it a boom in inventive approaches to computing not seen since the good old ...

I have been interested in science and technology for as long as I can remember, spurred on by a fondness for video games. I learned to work in Windows and manipulate files to get buggy games to work, ...