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.

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?

You may have never used Raspberry Pi or Arduino, but chances are you’ve heard of them. Raspberry Pi has been the bestselling British computer for years now, and Arduino has been transforming the DIY ...

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 ...

Arduino boards can certainly be used to create homebrew connected devices, but that doesn't mean it's easy. What if you're a rookie who has yet to master programming or wiring? That's where Arduino's ...

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 ...

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