There are many reasons to build your own Arduino circuit on a protoboard or a custom-designed printed circuit board. At the heart of the Arduino platform is an AVR microcontroller, in usual way you ...

Long before there was Apple there was Olivetti. With its slick, beautifully designed products at the cutting edge of innovation, the Italian company was once at the forefront of the race to produce a ...

Electrical energy is no longer treated as an unlimited utility. Every watt consumed has a cost impact, an efficiency implication, and in many cases a safety consequence. A smart grid in IoT is not a ...

Proper waste sorting is very important for keeping our neighbourhoods clean and saving resources for the future. When we mix food scraps, plastic, paper, and batteries in the same bin, recycling ...

Before I start talking about this really cool thing called Arduino (Italian for "good friend"), let me say a few things about the fascinating subject of physical computing. Physical computing has been ...

Check this out," Massimo Banzi says. The burly, bearded engineer wanders over to inspect a chipmaking robot—a "pick and place" machine the size of a pizza oven. It hums with activity, grabbing teensy ...