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4zerobox, industrial module by italian startup with ESP32 heart
With great pleasure, I want to introduce you today the project of an Italian startup: 4zerobox. 4zerobox is a module, DIN-rail mountable (9 modules), designed to complement or replace a classic PLC in industrial automation applications.
Read More »ESP32, the new Wemos Lolin32 LITE
On my blog I’ve already posted about the development board Wemos designed for the esp32 chip and that, on many webstores, you can find boards that “copy” the Lolin32 name but are instead clones of
Read More »Price reduction for SeeedStudio Fusion PCB
SeeedStudio has just announced an important price reduction for its PCB prototyping service, Fusion PCB: You’ve no more excuses to try and design your own PCBs, perhaps following my guide about how to export the needed Gerber files
Read More »Arduino Web Editor
A couple of days ago, Arduino announced the global availability (before you hade to be invited) of Arduino Web Editor, the web-based development environment for Arduino boards. Arduino Web Editor is a component of Arduino Create,
Read More »Raspberry Pi 3
Exactly 4 years after the announce of the first Raspberry, today the Raspberry foundation unleashed the new Raspberry Pi 3: Its main features are: The new Raspberry is already available from the official resellers, priced $
Read More »Microchip acquires Atmel
With an official press release, yesterday Microchip announced that has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Atmel. The overall value of the operation is 3.56 billion dollars. It’s for sure a news that will impact all the
Read More »Arduino IDE: the new Library Manager
If you updated the Arduino IDE to the latest version (1.6.3), you may have noticed a great improvement: a new tool for library management. In past indeed there was no a single place where you
Read More »Packt eBook Bonanza Campaign
I’m happy to share the new Packt’s $5 eBook Bonanza: from December 18th, customers will be able to get any Packt eBook or Video for just $5. This promotion covers every title and customers
Read More »XenApp, my new book!
With the new 7.x version of XenApp, Citrix made many changes to its infrastructure and to the way it works; hence Packt Publishing, that is the editor of my first book about XenApp, asked me for a new,
Read More »FTDI drivers and counterfeit chips: warning!
FTDI are widely used in electronic devices, in particular for USB-serial adapters. In the past some blogs reported that on the market there were many counterfeit chips, that are chips labeled as FTDI but manufactured by other companies. A deep
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