Smart’ displays are modules which combine display and a microcontroller in a meticulously designed circuit board ...

As you dive deeper into the world of electronics, a good oscilloscope quickly is an indispensable tool. However, for many use cases where you’re debugging low voltage, low speed circuits, that ...

The Elecrow CrowPi 3 is a kit that provides a bunch of tools and resources to help young people develop computer science skills. The kit is about the size of a small, but chunky laptop. But instead of ...

What if you could transform your music experience with a device you built yourself? Imagine a sleek, compact touchscreen player on your desk, displaying vibrant album art, offering intuitive playback ...

The PicoCalc is a new handheld with a retro design. At first glance it looks more like a graphing calculator than a modern handheld device. But it sports a QWERTY keyboard, a 4 inch display, and a ...

The Pico W5 is a Raspberry Pi RP2350 development board providing an alternative to the official Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W with dual-band (2.4GHz/5GHz) WiFi 4 and Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity through a B&T ...

The Pico 2 gets wireless networking for two bucks more. The Pico 2 gets wireless networking for two bucks more. is a former weekend editor who covered tech and entertainment. He has written news, ...

More often than not, an IoT master device uses the SPI (serial peripheral interface) and I 2 C (inter-integrated circuit) protocols to exchange data with EEPROMs or sensors that are operating in slave ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

In theory, it’s close to impossible to brick your Raspberry Pi Pico 2 or other RP2350 boards because the bootrom code (source code) is stored in the 32KB ROM of the microcontroller and is by ...

Costing a mere $4, the Raspberry Pi Pico was launched in 2021 using the in-house RP2040 chip. Unlike most other Raspberry Pi models, the Pi Pico isn't a microcomputer, as it is classified instead as a ...