While the Raspberry Pi has very good support for an I2C bus, a lot of very cool chips – including the in system programmer for just about every ATtiny and ATmega microcontroller – use an SPI bus.

For better or worse, pets often serve as inspiration and test subjects for hardware hacks: smarten up that hamster wheel, tweet the squirrel hunting adventures from a dog’s point of view, or automate ...

For an interactive kiosk, you need a full operating system. An Arduino or ESP32 can handle sensor input and LED strips, but rendering a 1080p game with touch input and audio requires a proper Linux ...

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 ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released a new version of its Raspbian OS, bringing improvements to the file manager, the Orca screen reader for the visually impaired, and a new way of configuring ...

A retail client in the US approached us with a familiar problem. They wanted to deploy "smart" parcel lockers and short-term rental lockers at high-traffic locations—gyms, apartment complexes, and ...