In early October, startup Technical Machine blew up the crowdfunding scene with its first product: Tessel, an open-source, Arduino-like microcontroller that runs JavaScript on the chip.

Inside Contactless is buying the secure microcontroller business from chip maker Atmel Corp., France-based Inside announced today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Inside says it is paying ...

ChromaLock began by embedding a Wi-Fi enabled microcontroller inside the TI-84 with help from a level shifter circuit. This required a little more work than was anticipated, and he eventually had ...

Microcontrollers are everywhere, including the oddest of places,such as a razor—the Schick Hydro Power Select customizablepower razor, to be precise. I’m. ... Inside the Schick Hydro ...

The WS28xx offerings place a microcontroller inside an RGB LED, allowing them to be individually addressed in very long chains or large matrices (still a chain but different layout).

It’s mounted on a jar, and the microcontroller inside is configured as a USB keyboard. When he mashes the button, it opens the “Run…” menu and types out taskkill spssengine.exe for him.

A microcontroller might contain an embedded processor as part of its makeup, but also combines other computer parts, such as memory and signal registers, in a single chip. References ...

This makes migration to a customizable microcontroller an easy future design path. Development time is also shorter with a direct FPGA interface because the interface is already defined inside the ...

Since a microcontroller doesn’t have a permanent storage unit like a hard drive or an SSD, all of the received data is temporarily stored inside the microcontroller’s built-in data memory ...

Unlike SBCs, microcontrollers have a high learning curve, making them a bit complex for most beginners.Once you include the ...

Some high-tech hacks involve hiding intricate lines of malicious code in Web pages, or tapping into a smartphone's accelerometer to track keystrokes, or inserting a microcontroller inside a ...

To accomplish the task, he had to gut a Staples "easy" button and arrange a Teensy USB microcontroller inside it, before making the resulting mini-thesaurus compatible with his computer.