More often than not, an IoT master device uses the SPI (serial peripheral interface) and I 2 C (inter-integrated circuit) protocols to exchange data with EEPROMs or sensors that are operating in slave ...

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While the Raspberry Pi has very good support for an I2C bus, a lot of very cool chips – including the in system programmer for just about every ATtiny and ATmega microcontroller – use an SPI bus.

The Raspberry Pi Pico is a change from the previous Pis that people are used to. This is because it is not a Linux computer, but it is a microcontroller board just like Arduino. The biggest selling ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Raspberry Pi, a mini single-board computer (SBC), is a blessing for DIY enthusiasts. It gives users the flexibility to create general purpose ...

As voice recognition and natural language parsing have improved so has the availability of digital personal assistants, from Bixby to Alexa or Cortana to Google Assistant, all the major tech companies ...

With the incredible versatility of the Raspberry Pi, it's no longer surprising how popular this single-board computer is. It's at the core of tons of cool and weird projects, like the Raspberry ...