MORE ABOUT Microcontrollers

The FreeSoC2 PSoC® 5LP Dev Board uses Cypress ARM processors and built-in configurable hardware to make a versatile system that can be used in the Arduino IDE or in the Cypress PSoC Creator environment (which offers many significant advantages). We take a quick look at the board to discover just some of the powerful features it has to offer. The FreeSoC2 PSoC® 5LP Dev Board is now available from the Elektor Store as part of a promotion.

At the end of last year the feud that has for so long split Arduino asunder seemed to have been resolved. Massimo Banzi announced at the World Maker Faire New York that a single united IDE is being created in a nonprofit foundation. He went on to say “The Arduino Foundation will allow us to champion the core values of the Arduino Community within the open source ecosystem and make our commitment to open source stronger than ever.” It also has a manifesto (in PDF) outlining many beautiful ideas and goals for the foundation. There are also some troubling undercurrents...

The new Elektor book GSM/GPRS Projects is aimed for people who want to learn how to use the GSM/GPRS modems in microcontroller based projects. Two types of popular microcontroller families are considered in the book: PIC and AVR microcontrollers, the last one with Arduino.

The third, extended and completely revised edition of Elektor’s bestseller Mastering Microcontrollers Helped by Arduino is now available. Revised, it now uses the Arduino IDE 1.6.12, and two extra chapters were added: ‘AVR Playground’ and ’Elektor Uno R4’.

Adafruit has announced the addition of the Feather 32u4 Adalogger to its Feather family of diminutive development and prototyping boards. The board uses 3.3V logic and is powered by the ATMega32U4 Arduino compatible microcontroller clocked at 8 MHz. This chip has 32KB of flash and 2KB of RAM with an integrated USB controller so...

The MCP9600 from Microchip is a single chip solution to convert thermocouple output EMF to degrees Celsius. The chip includes integrated cold-junction compensation and corrects thermocouple non-linearity for the eight most popular types of thermocouple...

ST Microelectronics have introduced a Development board powered by a STM32F746NGH6 microcontroller which has an ARM Cortex –M7 core with 1 Mbyte Flash memory and 340 Kbytes of RAM. The board features the standard Arduino Uno V3 connectors to accept Arduino shields and has a good range of interface options...

With a name like HamShield you might think this device will help keep the flies off your hog roast but no, it’s designed to let your Arduino talk to far away people using Amateur radio bands (Coverage: 136-170MHz, 200-260MHz, 400-520MHz)...

The Wino board is an Arduino-like stackable development system which is both smaller and cheaper than Arduino units and features built-in WiFi as standard. The main Wino controller board measures 26.5 x 18.5 mm and is fitted with an Atmel ATSAMD21 running at 48 MHz with 128 kB Flash storage and...

Resolving the position of free roaming robots can be quite challenging. You can only expect to get accuracy of around 6 to 10 meters by using a standard low-cost GPS system and that can be further downgraded by poor signal strength inside buildings. Bluetooth and WiFi positioning can achieve 1 to 5 metres resolution but...