Even if you don’t know what an Arduino board actually is (in which case, check out our overview), chances are you’ve excitedly shared a link with your friends about something powered by Arduino. This ...

Adafruit’s Trinket and digiStump’s Digispark board are rather close cousins. Both use an ATtiny85 microcontroller, both have USB functionality, and both play nice with the Arduino IDE. [Ray] is a fan ...

The open-source Arduino micro-controller is a very useful piece of kit which has been implemented by hackers to power countless endeavors from Musical Umbrellas to Angry Birds Slingshot Controllers.

This article describes how I have set up a simple “door-sentry” at home. The door-open detector is designed to alert you to an unauthorized entry in a confined area. It uses a little ATtiny85 ...

Developers and hobbyists who enjoy tinkering about with Arduino devices and technology might be interested in a new USB developer board called the Digispark. The tiny Digispark USB developer board is ...

Kickstarter has served as a hotbed of tech innovation all year and if the latest project to gain media attention is any indication, there's no sign of letting up anytime soon. The Digispark campaign ...

There has recently been a huge influx of extremely small dev board based on the ATtiny85. This small 8-pin microcontroller is able to run most Arduino sketches, and the small size and low price of ...