There have been many development boards recently built around the ESP32-S3. Most development boards come with a display, some also include cameras and buttons, and a few have speakers and microphones.

CircuitPython is Adafruit's branch of MicroPython designed to simplify experimentation and education on low-cost microcontrollers. It makes it easier than ever to ...

Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He ...

As mentioned in the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 article, third-party RP2350 boards are already available, and one of them is the MOTION 2350 Pro board from Cytron designed for robotics and motor control. The ...

I guess for those uninitiated, the Raspberry Pi Pico is the Pi Foundations’ own microcontroller. It’s not a fully-fledged PC in a little stick like the Pi Zero, but a way to do little things (motors, ...

The BME280 is a sensor that can measure temperature, humidity, and air pressure. It can be used to estimate altitude using the air pressure readings. The Adafruit BME280 library for CircuitPython ...

In this USB-C series, we’ve covered quite a bit of USB-C – things that are well known, things that should be better known, and a couple things that just appeared online for the first time. We’ve ...

Raspberry Pi’s first board based on a single microcontroller chip, the Raspberry Pi Pico (Fig. 1), is designed for physical computing—similar in concept to an Arduino—ratherthan perform the role of a ...