Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I document my learning in order to be able to inspire other people to make ...

Since I had a spare ESP32 lying around, I tried building a smart dashboard that pulls metrics from the other smart devices in ...

“The new major release of the Arduino IDE is faster and even more powerful! In addition to a more modern editor and a more responsive interface it features autocompletion, code ...

Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it ...

Unlike Raspberry Pi, the Arduino platform is entirely open-source, which allows users to view and modify the IDE's source code, which is hosted on GitHub. Compared to the Raspberry Pi, which can ...

This includes LEDs, LCD modules, servo motors, and buzzers. When building Arduino ... Environment (IDE) comes into the picture. It's an app primarily used for writing the code and uploading ...

Unfortunately, these LCDs do require quite a few digital pins, 6 to control the LCD and then perhaps another 3 to control the RGB backlight for a total of 9 pins. That's half of the pins available on ...

A library may also implement the functionality you need on multiple hardware choices, thus making the code more portable. Imagine that you want to use an LCD or other ... Raspbery PI PICO, Arduino DUE ...

The official Arduino development team has this week announced that the latest Arduino IDE 2.0 has now been made available as a stable release and is now available to download. The second ...

Arguably the biggest advantage of the Arduino ecosystem is how easy it is to get your code running. Type a few lines into the IDE, hit the button, and in a few seconds you’re seeing an LED blink ...