It’s generally pretty easy to spot a microcontroller on a PCB. There are clues aplenty: the more-or-less central location, the nearby crystal oscillator, the maze of supporting passives, and perhaps ...

In an effort to bring added flexibility and functionality to an ever-expanding array of products, engineers are incorporating processors in a long list of small, low-cost applications, including ...

A family of receptacles, ZIF sockets, emulation adapters, and programming/prototyping adapters suit Microchip Technology's PIC10F microcontrollers. The ZIF socket and ...

Here at Hackaday, it’s a pretty safe bet that putting “World’s smallest” in the title of an article will instantly attract comments claiming that someone else built a far smaller version of the same ...