The BBC micro:bit single board ARM computer aimed at education does not feature as often as many of its competitors in these pages. It’s not the cheapest of boards, and interfacing to it in all but ...

Arduino is a microcomputer board developed with the aim of making it easy for even beginners to use. It consists of a board with input and output, a microcomputer (MCU), Arduino's own language, and a ...

I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the Arduino. But if I had two serious gripes about the original offering it was the 8-bit CPU and the lack of proper debugging support. Now there’s plenty ...

Apart from understanding the Arduino's code language, one of the most confusing parts about the platform — especially for beginners — is picking the right board to use in a project. Sure, it isn't ...

Open source hardware just keeps getting better and better. With open source taking over the low-end, closed-source players jump into the game to try to hold onto the entry market and then open-source ...

*At last giving "Wired Design" a valuable chance to totally geek out on opaque home-electronics jargon. *Uh, also the new board's great for drones and 3D-printers, so we ought to be seeing the first ...

The long-awaited Arduino Due just hit the market, replacing the 8-bit, 16MHz brain of the popular Uno microcontroller prototyping platform with a 32-bit, 84MHz processor, while augmenting inputs and ...

Arduino makers, developers and hobbyists that have been searching for a development board that is smaller than the Arduino Zero, are sure to be interested in the Neutrino that has been created by ...

Elecfreaks of Shenzhen is an authorised micro:bit distributor and a maker of add-on educational modules and kits for the tiny computer. The one in the picture is Ring:bit Car, which combines a ...

BBC technology correspondent Rory goes hands-on with the Micro Bit The BBC has revealed the final design of the Micro Bit, a pocket-sized computer set to be given to about one million UK-based ...