[CNLohr] has been tinkering with some fun parts of late. He’d found out that ordinary LCD screens could be used as simple touch sensors, and he had to try it for himself. He ended up building a little ...

HD44780 LCDs are the most popular alphanumeric displays in embedded systems. The only downside is that they use six I/O pins in 4-bit nibble mode and as many as 11 pins in 8-bit mode. Earlier Design ...

Expanding the H8SX family of 32-bit CISC microcontrollers are 12 32-bit devices in the H8SX/1658R, H8SX/1668R, H8SX/1558, and H8SX/1568 groups. The additions extend the capabilities of the H8SX ...

Mouser Electronics, Inc. announced the availability of STM32L0538 (511-STM32L0538-DISCO) microcontroller discovery kit, developed for use with STM32L0 series of ultra-low power microcontrollers. It ...

Atmel's 120MHz SAM4S16 digital signal controller includes 1 Mbyte of flash, 128 Kbytes of SRAM and QTouch touch technology support. Atmel has filled out its high end microcontroller line with the 120 ...

Back in the distant past of the 1980s, software was distributed on audio tape. Ones and zeroes were encoded as tones of different frequencies, and tapes were decoded by specialised hardware which ...