The CH340G chip is a very popular USB to Serial chip used in Arduino clones because of its low cost. The OEM of this chip is Jiangsu Qinheng Co., Ltd. in the Nanjing Software Valley of China according ...

Nvidia (NVDA) and several PC-related stocks moved higher in premarket trading Monday after the company said it’s entering the PC market with a new product, intensifying competition with established ...

The use of modern microcontrollers as add-on peripherals for 1980s home computers has delivered significant benefits and capabilities unimaginable in the days when those machines were new. A great ...

Cortex-M (M0+, M3 and M4 for now) instruction set Cortex-A (A7) instruction set. This port is under heavy development. Cortex-R (R52) instruction set. riscv PULPino microprocessor with 32bits RISC-V ...

The Orion PDA is a modern handheld computer with a very retro-inspired design. that makes it look like a cross between a souped-up beeper and a pocket-sized laptop with a keyboard, display, and ...

Macworld explores Apple’s foundational decade (1976-1985), highlighting revolutionary products like the Apple I, Apple II, Lisa, Macintosh 128K, and LaserWriter that shaped personal computing. These ...

The picoZ80 board is a drop-in replacement for the Z80 microprocessor based on the Raspberry Pi RP2350B dual-core Cortex-M33 microcontroller and an ESP32 wireless SoC for WiFi and Bluetooth ...

The Microprocessor is an essential protein complex that is responsible for the first processing step in the biogenesis of canonical microRNAs. The core of this complex is composed of two proteins, the ...

Using PlatformIO with Visual Studio Code offers a powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use environment for microcontroller firmware development. This article describes an example of integrating PlatformIO ...

Like most things, advertised battery capacity is subject to a fair amount of specmanship [1]. The only way to know what you are buying is to test it yourself to determine if the product will meet your ...

In the 1980s, owning a computer became a possibility for the masses. At first, home computers were not cheap. But that changed with a computer costing under £100 ($137). With a futuristic whiff ...