While the Raspberry Pi has very good support for an I2C bus, a lot of very cool chips – including the in system programmer for just about every ATtiny and ATmega microcontroller – use an SPI bus.

Noob help: Converting a Raspberry Pi serial-port-reading Python script to Node.js ...

This code is still experimental, so use it on your own risk. This library is programmed in pure Python. The performance of Python is not good enough to drive the motor with high speed. So if you move ...

For [Tyler]’s entry to the Hackaday Prize, he’s making something that just a few years ago would be unheard of in a homebrew build. He’s making a DIY smartphone. Yes, with cheap single-board Linux ...

Makers, developers and hobbyists that wish they had more serial ports on their Raspberry Pi mini computer might be interested in a new Raspberry Pi UART Hat that has been created by Salicon ...

Raspberry Pi, the tiny single board computer that has proved to be such a sensation in recent years, is set to hit a new milestone by returning to the International Space Station (ISS) with better ...

University of Cambridge theoretical physicist Damien George has built a tiny microcontroller that is more powerful than Arduino and far simpler than the Raspberry Pi. Just funded on Kickstarter, the ...

There’s also a Python library (basically a set of commands you can use to control the robot) available to go alongside the HAT, which will let you write software to control the robot parts you’ve got ...