Browse around eBay for an original Altair 8800 and you quickly find that the price range is in the thousands of dollars. If you are a collector and have some money in your pocket maybe that’s… ...

Arduino developers and hobbyists looking for a portable battery shield to powered their projects might be interested in a new shield called the EnergyShield Arduino rechargeable battery.

It only applies to certain microcontrollers, but he provides example Arduino code showing how handy this can be for battery-powered projects.

Behind the delightfully punny name, you'll find an Arduino-compatible board the size of an AA battery.

Kanflo’s project is a wireless Arduino clone that’s meant to operate in a way that doesn’t take up a lot of battery juice, so it’s pretty low power.

An amusing aspect of the board is how Kanflo attached battery terminals, including a spring, on the board itself. This allows the AAduino to slot into the battery slot like a regular battery.

Adafruit has announced the launch of a new product today in the form of the VERTER power converter, which has been created to convert just about any battery pack to 5V for just $9.95 VERTER is ...