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 😉
Exactly 4 years after the announce of the first Raspberry, today the Raspberry foundation unleashed the new Raspberry Pi 3: Its main features are: [checklist] a new CPU (Broadcom BCM2837, 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53) WiFI (802.11n) and Bluetooth 4.1 onboard (at least! ;)) complete compatibility with the previous Raspberry 1 and 2 [/checklist] The new Raspberry is already available from…
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 makers ecosystem. In the past the most common choice for hobbists and professionals was indeed the use of PIC microcontrollers; now Atmel,…