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 ...

Soon, you could make everything in your life smartphone-app-controllable—or at least the things that have wires. A California-based inventor has taken to Kickstarter to fund the launch of the latest ...

We hate to admit it, but we missed out on the TI Chronos watch deal last week. While we’re still a little bit burned over the fact that these watches sold out so fast, [Ahmet] sent in his Open Source ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmugZcobahA&w=640&h=360] San Francisco-based startup Coin may not have launched yet, but it has created a hardware platform ...

If you are in the market for a tiny Windows 10 mini PC that also comes equipped with an on-board Arduino processor, the new LattePanda might be worth more investigation. The LattePanda mini PC is ...

Arduino, the Italian company that has powered the “maker” movement with a series of small computing boards that can be programmed and configured for different tasks, is introducing a board targeted at ...

Qualcomm didn’t disclose what it would pay to acquire Arduino. The acquisition also needs to be approved by regulators “and ...