If you are a software and hardware developer working with serial ports, you often need a reliable serial port monitor that allows you to capture, display, analyze, record, and replay all serial port ...

Usually, I use the Serial Monitor of the Arduino IDE to communicate with the Arduino hardware. But now, I want to build an application on my computer that allows me to click some buttons to control ...

After a youth spent playing with Amigas and getting into all sorts of trouble on the school computer network, I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for hardware from the 80s and 90s. This extends ...

Before opening the Arduino software, wire up the Arduino according to the circuits page using the 8MHz minimalist breadboard circuit but with a 10k pull-up resistor on the reset pin (physical pin 1).

Makers and motherboard-modders rejoice! One of the most popular open-source computing hardware companies recently debuted new hardware offerings for gadget geeks, including a beefier project board ...

If you’ve done 3D printing, you’ve probably at least heard of Tinkercad. This popular CAD package runs in your browser and was rescued from oblivion by Autodesk a few years ago. [Chuck] recently did a ...