[Hans Peter] wanted to move away from using full Arduino boards in his projects. One of the components he rarely used after the development stage is the USB hardware. Once the firmware is flashed to ...

In Lesson 3 you learned about for loops, and how for loops can make your life as a programmer much simpler. You wrote a program that would blink a red LED and then a yellow LED the number of times ...

AVRDUDE can be made to run using a modified conf file to accommodate some of the 8051-derived uCs, but the USBasp is a bigger challenge. Mainly because virtually all uCs use an active LOW RESET ...

Arduino hobbyists, developers and programmers that would like to be able to remove the need to use cables to access their Arduino projects, might be interested in a new wireless programmer ...

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 ...

Just like a PC’s USB port, the serial port on a PC can also in some cases serve as a power supply. A USB port can provide as much as 500 mA at 5V, but a serial port provides less power. Even with the ...

If you are a software and hardware developer working with serial ports, you often need a reliable serial port monitor that allows you to capture, display, analyze, record, and replay all serial port ...