The FT232RL is extremely useful for sending data back and forth between a PC and a microcontroller (such as the ATMega328p that's used in the Arduino Uno R3). It can even be used to program a ...

So he tried his hand with some really small SMD parts by building this USB to serial Arduino programmer. The chip he went with isn’t the FTDI part we’re used to. Instead of using an FT232RL ...

[Andrew] wonders why the SerialUSB() function on the Cortex M3-based Arduino Due is so much faster than Serial() on the Uno or Nano, and shares his observations in this short video. He sets up an e… ...

In the second installment of this “Empowering Innovation Together, Engineering Big Ideas” series, Grant Imahara interviews Arduino co-founder Massimo Banzi, a champion in the open-source ...