With their cheap price tags, massive I/O provisions, and low power consumption, microcontrollers like the uber-popular ...

Most of us are familiar with the Arduino Uno, a starting place for electronics projects since 2010 ... but it’s definitely cool for our retrocomputing nerds.

[Hoolio] asked what was wrong with the Arduino, and this terrible, terrible Tasmanian replied, “there’s far too much boring blinkenlights and not enough actual cool stuff.” [Hoolio] took ...