The Arduino is an amazing piece of technology that can be used to power all kinds of gadgets, often using nothing more than a battery and various components that don’t cost more than a few bucks.

Arduino is one of those boards that has become synonymous with hacking and making. Since its introduction in 2005, over 700,000 official Arduino boards have been sold, along with untold millions of ...

An Arduino can be used to test the life of any battery with less than 5 volts, Boxall says. So, for a quick way to see how much juice your AAA, AA, C, or D batteries have left, build this ...

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmugZcobahA&w=640&h=360] San Francisco-based startup Coin may not have launched yet, but it has created a hardware platform ...

An Arduino is a microcontroller — a single board designed to control something and perform a specific task. Unlike a ...