In a move that could bring faster wireless capabilities to gadgets and Arduino boards, chip maker Atmel is buying wireless chip maker Newport Media for US$140 million. Atmel’s chips are widely used in ...

Atmel and Arduino teamed up at World Maker Faire to introduce the Wi-Fi shield 101. [Gary] from Atmel gave us the lowdown on this new shield and its components. The shield is a rather spartan affair, ...

Arduino is an open-source, community-based prototyping platform that offers accessible hardware and well-documented software to electronics enthusiasts. The community encompasses artists, designers, ...

The cost-effective, secure Arduino Wi-Fi Shield 101 is an easy-to-use extension that can seamlessly be connected to any Arduino board enabling high-performance Wi-Fi connectivity. This new shield ...

At the MakerFair Bay Area Expo in San Mateo, Ca. this weekend Atmel and Arduino took wraps off their jointly developed Arduino Zero, a 32-bit platform they are aiming ...

SAN MATEO,Calif., May 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Maker Faire-- Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller (MCU) and touch solutions, today announced the company will be demonstrating ...

Sometimes the simplest things in life are the most beautiful. [The Tweaker] has soldered an LED circle on the top of an ATmega328P chip, and it looks great. Using nothing more than some solder, wire, ...

Atmel is working with the Arduino open source community to create development boards using ARM-based microcontrollers including the Cortex-M3-based SAM3U MCU. According to Alf Egil-Bogen, chief ...

I am surprised how many professional engineers I meet who have used Arduinos in one-off or some-off projects, not just for development, but in finished things. At Embedded World in Nuremberg last week ...

In a move that could bring faster wireless capabilities to gadgets and Arduino boards, chip maker Atmel is buying wireless chip maker Newport Media for US$140 million. Atmel’s chips are widely used in ...