Arduino’s brand-new Esplora microcontroller, packed with prebuilt sensors and features, could indicate a move for the DIY electronics company toward a wider segment of the microcontroller market.

The board, which is based on Atmel’s SAMA5D3 ARM Cortex-A5 processor-based MPU, has Arduino shield-compatible expansion headers for customisation. With a Linux distribution and software package the ...

In this project, we create a joystick-controlled laser by connecting two servos to a joystick and using this setup as a pan-and-tilt controller for a laser pointer. The following is excerpted from the ...