The newly released Arduino Leonardo has a few very interesting features, most notably the ability to act as a USB keyboard and mouse thanks to the new ATmega 32U4 microcontroller. This feature isn&… ...

This is an impossible task with an ATMega microcontroller – the Arduino does not have the RAM or the processing power to play full-screen animations.

Making an Arduino shield can be simpler than you think. This time I designed one to program Attiny and Atmega ...

It's the same basic design found in the Arduino prototyping platform: a microcontroller, designed to use its 32 pins to interface with external hardware like sensors, motors and LEDs.