Countdown to the PSoC Pioneer Challenge Deadline — Your Final Weekend
This is the final weekend to prepare your PSoC Pioneer Challenge project
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What Do Jurrassic Park, Twisted Metal, and Waffles Have in Common? Power Wheels Racing
Coming to the 10th Annual Bay Area Maker Faire is the 7th season of Power Wheels racing. The Power Racing Series is a vaguely popular nerd “sport” that mods simple toy store ride-on plastic cars and converts them into $500 25mph electric racing machines. The series’ main take home is the “enforcement” of a tiny budget with sort […]
Gallery: MIT Celebrates Arduino Day
The Media Lab at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts provided a bright, stark-white-and-glass frame for a US-based celebration that featured four of the five Arduino founders. David Mellis, one of the co-founders, is a graduate student at the Media Lab. He was the in-house connection. (No surprise that the fifth co-founder, Gianluca Martino, was not present.) Check […]
Seamless Accelerator to Foster IoT Startups
A new coalition of companies and venture capitalists, including Start Garden and Steelcase, aims to make Grand Rapids, Michigan a specialized hub for IoT ideas and products. Dubbed the Seamless Accelerator, the coalition’s goal is to provide startups with both initial capital and mentorship to encourage innovation and solve challenges associated with IoT development. “We really can’t […]
Designing a Breadboard Adaptor for the $5 ESP8266 Microcontroller
The ESP8266 is now Arduino compatible, but to the most common breakout board isn’t breadboard friendly. So we go ahead and build a breadboard adaptor (Part 3 of 3)
Installing and Building an Arduino Sketch for the $5 ESP8266 Microcontroller
The ESP8266 is now Arduino compatible, we walk you through installing the development environment and uploading your first sketch. (Part 2 of 3)
ESP8266: This $5 Microcontroller with Wi-Fi is now Arduino-Compatible
What if you could have an Arduino compatible board, with WiFi, for just $5? Well now you can, because the ESP8266 is now Arduino compatible.