One of the great things about the Arduino environment is that it covers a wide variety of hardware with a common interface. Importantly, this isn’t just about language, but also about abstrac… ...

It’s something [Daniel1111] has done with his Arduino CD player, which uses the little microcontroller board to control a CD-ROM drive via its IDE bus.

Arduino Defined Arduino is described by its makers as “ an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software,” whatever that means.

Arduino has created a Renesas RA4M1 microcontroller board in its Nano form-factor. Called Nano R4, it follows the Uno R4, the first Arduino to use the RA4M1. “Whether you’re working on a connected ...