The intel 8051 series 8bit microcontroller, originally introduced in 1980, remains popular and has had perhaps the longest product life of all such devices. It has become the industry standard for ...

[Andrew] picked up a handful of these big STC 8051 chips for a song and dance. The problem he has with them is the clunky VB6 programming software that only wants to run on a Windows box. He ...

Dirt cheap hardware is available for developing 8051 microcontroller applications. Such is well suited for students and budget-limited experimenters alike. This minimum system development board kit is ...

The DS89C4x0 single-cycle 8051 processors come with flash memories up to 64 kbytes. They can be programmed by an application. The devices also include two full-duplex UARTs, ...

Most of us are familiar with the Arduino Uno, a starting place for electronics projects since 2010. But what if the Arduino Uno was released in 1980? You’d probably get something like [Electr… ...