So he tried his hand with some really small SMD parts by building this USB to serial Arduino programmer. The chip he went with isn’t the FTDI part we’re used to. Instead of using an FT232RL ...

Some Arduino boards, like the DUE which use a Cortex M3 with an integrated USB port, skip the “convert to serial” step. On these boards it is pure USB to USB link from your computer to the ...

Hardware hackers building interactive gadgets based on the Arduino microcontrollers are finding that a recent driver update that Microsoft deployed over Windows Update has bricked some of their ...