Long before there was Apple there was Olivetti. With its slick, beautifully designed products at the cutting edge of innovation, the Italian company was once at the forefront of the race to produce a ...

The rise of low-cost, hacker-friendly electronics is fueling a new wave of hardware hobbyists. Using programmable boards like the Arduino and dirt-chip computers like the Raspberry Pi, you can build ...

A new flexible Arduino development board has been unveiled this month which has been developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory, to provide a lightweight low-cost and flexible electronic system ...

Hey look, an Arduino without its clothes on. This one’s just started its journey to becoming the ubiquitous prototyping tool. The image is from [Bunnie’s] recent tour of the fab house where Arduino ...

Two satellites set for launch Sunday will soon be in the hands of ordinary people because they run on a tiny microchip that anyone can program. The chip, known as Arduino, is cheap and easy to use. It ...

Check this out," Massimo Banzi says. The burly, bearded engineer wanders over to inspect a chipmaking robot—a "pick and place" machine the size of a pizza oven. It hums with activity, grabbing teensy ...

The Arduino platform and development tools have built a community and infrastructure for the hobbyist, maker, and educational markets. The readily available chips make it possible to transform a ...