To program these chips, [Aaron] first had to wire up the microcontroller into a circuit. This was just a bit of perf board, a resistor, a few caps, and a USB A plug.

If you want to try a Scratch-inspired take on microcontroller programming, check out MicroBlocks. It will work with several common boards, including the micro:bit and the Raspberry Pi Pico.

MicroPython is a compact implementation of the Python 3 programming language designed to work with microcontrollers. Initially announced back in 2013 as part of a Kickstarter project created by ...

Two words: Robot. Car. Two more words: Robot tank. Make either one, no electronics or programming experience required, with the Makeblock Arduino Starter Robot Kit, now just $79.99 at Escapist Deals.

COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Prof. Brendan Ghena (Fall), Prof. Stephen Xia (Winter) COURSE COORDINATOR: Prof. Josiah Hester COURSE GOALS: Teach students how to design, build, and program microcontroller-based ...

First handheld games of Nintendo - Game & Watch use 4-bit Sharp microcontrollers of 5xx series. For example: Donkey Kong game uses chip Sharp SM-510. It has segmented program address space and ...

When students at Cornell University wanted to play Human Tetris (and ace a final project to boot), they taught a 20Mhz, 8-bit microcontroller how to follow their moves.

For beginners learning to program Arduinos, a web-based, fully networked developer environment called Codebender could drastically reduce the learning curve.