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May 26, 20206 min read

Understanding the Arduino Sketch Language

When I first started playing with Sketch and Arduino, it seemed to me that Sketch was some sort of pseudo language, a trans-language...

May 25, 20204 min read

IoT: The Next Big Thing

I remember back in the 1990's when the Internet was pretty new and we had to use dial-up to access it, and it was amazingly slow. As a...

May 2, 20207 min read

Why using Arduino to learn electronics is a bad idea.

I really like the Arduino platform, boards, and how easy it makes getting started with electronic projects. I personally own dozens of...

Apr 15, 20203 min read

Raspberry PI or Arduino?

This has to be one of the most common questions people ask when they start looking a microcontrollers or mini-computer for electronic...

Apr 9, 20204 min read

What’s a fake or cloned Arduino?

There's a LOT of confusion around Arduino these days. Most people that use them cannot tell you what an Arduino actually is, much less...

Apr 8, 20207 min read

It's a mistake to use Raspberry PI to teach electronics.

The Raspberry PI (RPI) is minicomputer developed as a learning platform for kids to get into computing and introduce them to programming....