In recent years, integrated platforms equipped with microcontrollers (with Arduino probably being the best-known brand) have been gaining popularity.

Let’s start with the simple case: performing an action only when the switch goes active. We’ll assume the switch starts in ...

Last year, Semtech released the LR2021 LoRa Plus transceiver chip, designed to address the low data-rate issue associated with LoRa, but surprisingly, ...

We are seeing a surge in reports of dead Ryzen 5 9600X CPUs, and it is happening often enough to appear more than coincidental. In the past 30 days, there have been at least four cases of dead Ryzen 5 ...

The unusually frequent defects with AMD's desktop gaming processor, Ryzen 7 9800X3D, continue to be a problem. While last year the focus was primarily on motherboard manufacturer Asrock, it is now ...

This firmware relies on the excellent work of Earle F. Philhower, III to create an arduino integration with the Raspberry Pi Pico SDK (as opposed to the Mbed-based ...

Desktops PCs are faster than ever, with the speediest systems rivaling massive, warehouse-filling supercomputers from not even two decades ago. It may not cost as much as you think to have one of ...

We will start with the Asrock boards. Most of the lineup was covered in part one of this series, as 11 boards were priced at $200 or less. Asrock has only one board priced above $200. The recently ...

The premium price of the MSI MEG Z890 Ace creates a raft of expectations, and in terms of raw performance, it arguably fails to meet them. However, it counters this with a colossal number of ...

Packed with features and options for storage and peripheral expansion, the MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk is a solid basis for building an Intel Core Ultra 200S rig. However, despite the competitive price, ...