Much like Raspberry Pi, Arduino offers a multi-purpose collection of boards and accessories that can both teaching programming fundamentals and do neat things.

Ladyada was gracious enough to take a few minutes to explain a little about what makes Arduino boards so cool–and useful–to anyone who’s ever wanted to build or hack their own devices.

Arduino has a range of boards all with different add-on features and coming in different sizes - including small ones.

For years, the humble Arduino microcontroller—a cheap, open source, midnight-blue circuit board emblazoned with a tiny white infinity loop—has been a favorite tool of the DIY electronics crowd ...

How do Arduino and Raspberry Pi compare? We break down both sides of the DIY story and provide examples of why each may be best for your particular project.

Even if you don’t know what an Arduino board actually is (in which case, check out our overview), chances are you’ve excitedly shared a link with your friends about something powered by ...

Another day, another Arduino project. This time it's something called SuperDuino, a tiny touchscreen powered by a coin cell battery and backed up by a tiny Arduino-Like processor. The kit can be ...

Love it or hate it, for many people embedded systems means Arduino. Now Arduino is leveraging its more powerful MKR boards and introducing a cloud service, the Arduino IoT Cloud. The goal is to ...

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If you've got an Arduino of any variety, you might have noticed some of the pins on the board have a tilde mark or PWM printed next to them. What is PWM?