In a move that could bring faster wireless capabilities to gadgets and Arduino boards, chip maker Atmel is buying wireless chip maker Newport Media for US$140 million.

The Arduino Nano and Uno are equipped with very similar processors (the chip that essentially serves as the brain of the board). The Nano features an ATmega328, while the Uno sports an ATmega328P.

Atmel and Arduino teamed up at World Maker Faire to introduce the Wi-Fi shield 101. [Gary] from Atmel gave us the lowdown on this new shield and its components.

The Arduino Nano is powered by an Atmel ATmega328. It's an 8-bit AVR microcontroller that operates at a clock speed of 16 MHz and comes with 2 KB SRAM, 1 KB EEPROM, and 32 KB flash memory.

This one caught my eye - an Arduino-based lie detector that can measure the skin's response to a question. At the heart of this project is an Arduino Nano, based on the Atmel ATmega328 (for the Nano 3 ...

A 32-bit extension of the platform established by Arduino UNO, the Zero board (Figure 1 below ) is powered by Atmel's SAMD21 MCU, which features a 32-bit ARM Cortex M0+ core.

Arduino has equipped their new Arduino Zero board with an Atmel’s SAMD21 MCU, featuring a 32-bit ARM Cortex M0+ core, with 256kb of flash and 32kb SRAM in a TQFP package making it compatible ...

The board, which is based on Atmel’s SAMA5D3 ARM Cortex-A5 processor-based MPU, has Arduino shield-compatible expansion headers for customisation. With a Linux distribution and software package the ...

In a move that could bring faster wireless capabilities to gadgets and Arduino boards, chip maker Atmel is buying wireless chip maker Newport Media for US$140 million.