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• Expanding the universe of possibilities with the mbed application board

  By Mark Cundle, Global Head of Technical Marketing, RS Components
  mbed is well known as a small and cost-effective developer platform designed for rapid MCU prototyping that enables a quick and easy introduction to ARM core processing.

• BeagleBone revisited

  By Andrew Back, Principle, AB Open Ltd
  As the BeagleBone approaches one year old a look at how it compares with its slightly younger, not-so-distant but arguably more glamorous relative, Raspberry Pi.

• Free DesignSpark PCB Version 4

  By Mike Brojak, Marketing Engineer - DesignSpark PCB Specialist, RS Components
  Designspark.com was born into the world offering free online resources and design support to professional designers, hobbyists and students.

• Time / Interval Meter with ATtiny

  By Vladimir Mitrovic, Croatia
  This project goes to show what little hardware is sufficient to build a versatile Time and Interval Meter with a user-friendly LCD readout.

• Towards Social Hardware Development

  By Andrew Back, Co-founder, SolderPad
  As the intense pressure to specialise continues to drive outsourcing, now more than ever before, the development of hardware needs to become a social act.

• Free ModelSource - Addressing a bottleneck in hardware design

  By Martin Keenan, Head of Applications Strategy, RS Components
  A new hope to reduce the design time cycle for engineers, and especially for rapid prototyping and small-batch production, is here in the form of ModelSource.

• Raspberry Pi Media Player

  By Chris Swan
  See how to achieve with your Pi to replace a venerable Kiss DP-600 as a living room media player with impressive video performance.

• Thunderbolt - A New Standard for High-Speed Device I/O

  By David Pike
  Now the USB interface may finally have its first serious challenger - ‘Thunderbolt', backed by Apple and Intel, for faster, more versatile I/O and more bus bandwidth.

• Android Switch Interface

  By Jos van Kempen
  How can you implement various wireless sensing and switching functions using an Arduino board with a Bluetooth shield?

• New DesignSpark Synergy Boards that Source Great Ideas

  By Mark Cundle
  As part of its collaboration with ARM, RS has launched the first three of its new family of ‘DesignSpark Synergy’ boards.

• Handheld game device with rotating LED display adopting LEGO and GR-Sakura

  By pluis9
  How to enable rotating LED display in a handheld game device using GR-Sakura and LEGO?

• Memory Futures - Looking into the Crystal…?

  By Mark Cundle
  Perhaps some of the interesting developments taking place in memory technology are the possible long-term replacements.

• The Changing Role of the Development Kit

  By Mark Cundle
  To survive in this volatile market, development kit must adapt itself with increased differentiation and functionality, in conjunction with an extended support ecosystem.

• The Growing Possibilities of Wireless Power Transfer

  Recently companies are exploring diverse uses for wireless power concept, or inductive coupling, like powering electric cars in the future.

• Gadget Renesas Sakura

  Posted by GordonSin
  The GR-Sakura is one of the Gadget Renesas board series. It uses an RX63N MCU and features a mini-USB 2.0.

• Avoiding Failure, Tolerating Faults

  By Dr William Marshall
  Fault avoidance and hardware design techniques for coping with transient and hard faults in microcontroller-based systems.

• Charting the Convergence to a Common Controller Core

  By Dave Pike
  It appears that 32-bit MCU roadmaps are increasingly based on processor cores developed by one company: ARM.

• Low-cost Headphone Amp

  By Stefan Dellemann
  Introducing a design that's straightforward, sounds good and can be built using well-established components.

• ARDUINO Tutorials - Spaceship interface

  By Dave Pike
  The Arduino board - See how it enables spaceship interface.

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