In the old days, a serial port often connected to an acoustic coupler that gripped a phone handset and allowed a remote connection to a far away serial port (via another phone and acoustic coupler) at ...

There’s building small computers — like the Raspberry Pi — and then there’s building small computers — like this Desktop Viewer from Star Trek. [Monta Elkins] is using a Beetle for this project; it’s ...

Smartphone processor and modem maker Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino, the Italian company known mainly for its open source ecosystem of microcontrollers and the software that makes them function. In its ...

Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino but allowing it to operate independently. The new Qualcomm-powered UNO Q is available for $44. Qualcomm is a huge player in the SBC space, dwarfing Raspberry Pi. Chip and ...