The Arduino Nano and Uno are equipped with very similar processors (the chip that essentially serves as the brain of the board). The Nano features an ATmega328, while the Uno sports an ATmega328P.

This tutorial will guide you through the process of building a tachometer around an Arduino. Tachometers are used to measure rotation rate in Revolutions Per Minute (RPM). You don’t need much… ...

The long-awaited Arduino Due just hit the market, replacing the 8-bit, 16 MHz brain of the popular Uno microcontroller prototyping platform with a 32-bit, 84 MHz processor, while augmenting inputs ...

The newly released Arduino Leonardo has a few very interesting features, most notably the ability to act as a USB keyboard and mouse thanks to the new ATmega 32U4 microcontroller. This feature isn&… ...

How a cheap microcontroller is making it possible for anyone to design and build hardware.