Bald Engineer

Does Energia stack up as one of the Arduino alternatives? With all the recent noise around Arduino LLC and Arduino SRL, I felt like I needed a break from Arduino. So I decided to …

All Arduino boards contain analog and digital pins. The Arduino functions have different calls depending on the pin type. For example, when calling analogRead(), an analog input …

Most of the major electronic blogs have covered the controversy between Arduino LLC and Arduino SRL. My first deep look into it was from Hackaday’s Arduino v. Arduino. Since it has …

Behind-The-Scenes of AddOhms #14 After moving from learning a new tool to mastery, the resistance for me to switch becomes very high. This can apply to hardware tools like a drill, …

To save time, breadboard pins or just lack of knowledge people try to skip adding even one decoupling capacitor to a circuit. Either on IRC or in Forums you can almost always see …

The Arduino Library provides functions like shiftOut() and digitalWrite(). These functions are simple and effective, but they are slow. Of course, they’re doing a lot more than …

element14 is running a Design Challenge called Enchanted Objects. The idea is to add magic, or modern technology, into older objects, enchanting them. How could you turn an …

The Fitbit API allows you to get data from a Fitbit and use it in your own applications. Paul wrote a Python script which runs on his Raspberry Pi which extracts the data. Then we …

The (official) Arduino team has finally released the 1.6 version of the Arduino software. After being in the making for over 2 years, this release is an exciting one! 1.6 marks the …

Aledyne-TSXperts, a National Instruments Alliance Partner, has released an Arduino compiler for NI’s LabVIEW. Now it is possible to build a VI and download it into your Arduino. …