Following an exciting two days of MakerCon and on the eve of Maker Faire, the team of Atmel and Arduino have announced the launch of the Arduino Wi-Fi Shield 101, a shield that enables rapid prototyping of Internet of Things (IoT) applications on the highly-popular open-source platform. The cost-effective, secure Arduino Wi-Fi Shield 101 is an […]
In this segment of my chat with Vegard Wollan, the co-inventor of the AVR explores the symmetry between the highly-popular microcontroller and the Arduino development board. Personally, one of the great moments was when Vegard revealed that the entire AVR product line was meant from the start to be easy-to-use. This began with the instruction set, the architecture and continues […]
Writing for DesignNews, Rob Siegel notes that Arduino has come quite a long way since the very first boards hit the streets way back in 2005. According to Siegel, the open source, Atmel-powered lineup of boards is “showing up everywhere,” from consumer and industrial products to engineering toys for budding engineers. “Just look at the […]
Brenn10 recently upcycled an ordinary air popcorn popper by transforming the device into a slick Arduino-based controllable coffee roaster. “The extraction of the complex aromatic and flavor characteristics of a coffee bean is dictated by a roaster’s ability to control a variety of variables that act on a green coffee bean while it is roasting,” […]
Martin Raynsford and the JustAddSharks crew has created a rather unique Arduino-based ‘Etch A Sketch’ laser cutter. “What happens when you combine a love of laser cutters with a love of cool 70’s toys and an Arduino? An ‘Etch A Sketch’ controlled laser cutter of course,” Raynsford wrote in a recent blog post. “I always […]
Reza Kazerounian, Senior VP and GM of the Microcontroller Business Unit at Atmel, recently sat down with the folks at EEWeb to discuss a wide range of topics including the Maker Movement, the rapidly evolving Internet of Things (IoT) and the future of Atmel’s MCU business. As Kazerounian notes, the IoT is a combination of multiple […]
Adafruit’s Anuja Apte has penned an informative tutorial describing how to program an Atmel-based Arduino Uno board (ATmega328) using Simulink. For the uninitiated, Simulink can best be described as a block diagram environment for multi-domain simulation and model-based design. It supports automatic code generation, along with continuous test and verification of embedded systems. In terms of Arduino, […]
The Game of Life (aka Life) can best be described as a cellular automaton created by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. Essentially, it is a zero-player game, meaning that its very evolution is determined by an initial state, requiring no further input. Simply put, an individual interacts with the Game of Life by […]
Nominet Trust, one of the UK’s leading funders of social technology ventures, recently kicked off an initiative to find and recognize the most inspiring applications of digital technology for social good. Unsurprisingly, the Atmel-powered Arduino made the 100 item list, with Charles Leadbeater, a Nominet Trust board member and NT100 project lead, describing Arduino as “LEGO […]
The Game of Life (aka Life) can best be described as a cellular automaton created by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. Essentially, it is a zero-player game, meaning that its very evolution is determined by an initial state, requiring no further input. Simply put, an individual interacts with the Game of Life […]
