Arduino can’t even claim its prominence as the first user-friendly microcontroller development board. This title goes to the humble Basic Stamp, a four-component board that was introduced in the ...

[Kevin]’s build manages 12-note polyphony, an impressive feat for the ATmega328 at the heart of the Arduino Uno. It’s done by running an interrupt ... producing a basic square wave synth.

(This board includes an in-circuit serial programming, or ICSP, connector.) You can find other hardware listed on the Arduino Web site. Amazon offers several basic-electronics books and programming ...

I want to build an application on my computer that allows me to click some buttons to control the Arduino. To do this, I am using Visual Basic — the programming language that I’m familiar with and ...

Check out the this colourful but BASIC use of Arduino... I flagged this one in the "Tweets of the Week" section of Electronics Weekly magazine, from the Arduino team, but it's worth highlighting in a ...