Kategorie: News
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Introducing a new Bluetooth provisioning flow — With the UNO R4 WiFi
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’re excited to roll out a new Bluetooth provisioning flow on Arduino Cloud — and the UNO R4 WiFi is the first board to support it! Say goodbye to cables and complicated steps: setup is now faster and smoother. Wait, what is provisioning? Provisioning is the process of securely registering your Arduino…
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Building a DIY GPU with Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesA GPU (graphics processing unit) is a specialized computer component for, primarily, rendering graphics. That RTX 5090 that you took out a second mortgage to buy is one example. But GPUs are useful for far more than just playing the newest games at max settings; their parallel processing capabilities make them desirable…
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Join the UK Bebras Challenge 2025
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe UK Bebras Challenge, the nation’s largest computing competition, is back! Schools can enter now for this year’s Challenge, which runs from 10 to 21 November. Last year, more than 467,000 students from across the UK took part, tackling fun and thought-provoking puzzles that introduce key ideas in computational thinking with no…
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Flexible PCB watch
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe first of these was the choice of microcontroller; although he used a Raspberry Pi Pico in the prototyping stage, the RP2040 was just too big to incorporate in the final build, so he used the snappily named STM 32 UO0 83KCU6 instead. The other big challenge is that at full…
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Promoting young people’s agency in the age of AI
Reading Time: 6 minutesPart of teaching young people AI literacy skills is teaching them to critically think about AI, and to design AI applications that address problems they care about. How to do this was the focus of our June research seminar. Working together to design AI Our June research seminar was delivered by Netta…
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German word clock
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’ve seen word clocks before in several configurations, including laser-cut, 3D-printed, and one intriguing version that used servos to bring the projected words in and out of focus, rather than revealing them through a grid like usual. However – and this is strange, given that we live in a big, varied…
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Creating a space for connection and code: Meet Seung Woo (Tony), Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe love hearing from members of the community and sharing the stories of amazing young people, volunteers, and educators who are using their passion for technology to create positive change in the world around them. Seung Woo, also known as Tony, is a 17-year-old student from Canada and the co-founder of his…
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 kündigt Cessna Citation X von FlightFX als Marktplatzinhalt an
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Citation X is a mid-size, long-range business jet aircraft developed and manufactured by American aviation company Cessna, a subsidiary of Textron Aviation. The company developed the Citation X as the premier offering of its established Citation lineage of business jets, basing it on the Citation III. The prototype of the first…
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World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Classic ist jetzt verfügbar
Reading Time: 5 minutesWagt euch erneut durch den Nebelschleier und besucht den uralten Kontinent Pandaria. Macht euch in Mists of Pandaria Classic auf die Reise, um seine vergessenen Wunder zu entdecken und seine tiefsten Geheimnisse zu enthüllen. Das erwartet euch in Mists of Pandaria Classic Levelt euch durch neue Zonen, neue Dungeons und neue Schlachtzüge,…
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This robot picks locks using brains instead of brawn
Reading Time: 2 minutesA physical lock, like what secures your front door, has a finite and calculable number of combinations, just like a digital keypad does. There are a set number of pins in the lock and each can be one of a set number of lengths. Each of those numbers varies based on manufacturer…
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Dive into satellite IoT with the new Arduino-compatible Iridium Certus 9704 Development Kit
Reading Time: 3 minutesIoT (Internet of Things) devices can be very useful, but they do, by definition, require internet access. That’s easy enough when Wi-Fi® is available, and it is even possible to rely on LoRa® and cellular data connections to transmit data outside of urban areas. However, deploying an IoT device to a truly…
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Bentobot
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile making fun robots with his online friends, Thomas wanted them to try them out. As is common these days, his friends are scattered around the globe, so his solution was to create a “simple app” so they could control the robots remotely. “Word spread quickly, and soon people from around the…
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Next Week on Xbox: Neue Spiele vom 21. bis zum 25. Juli
Reading Time: 4 minutesWillkommen bei Next Week on Xbox! Wie immer stellen wir Dir alle neuen Spiele vor, die bald für Xbox Series X|S und Xbox One, Windows und im Game Pass erhältlich sind. Klick Dich einfach durch die Spiel-Details, um mehr zu möglichen Vorbestellungen zu erfahren (Änderungen vorbehalten). Optimiert für Xbox Series X|S / Smart DeliveryAuf zu neuen Abenteuern in Monument Valley…
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Essential tips to integrate computer science into your lessons: Teacher tips from CSTA 2025
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn our latest podcast miniseries, we spoke to educators live from the CSTA 2025 annual conference in Cleveland, Ohio, to hear their top tips for integrating computer science (CS) into other subjects. Hello World editor, Meg Wang and the team met teachers in the exhibit hall for real-time reflections and essential teacher…
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Grounded 2 (Game Preview) erscheint am 29. Juli – alles, was Du wissen musst
Reading Time: 4 minutesGrounded 2 erscheint am 29. Juli 2025 in der Game Preview für Xbox Series X|S, Xbox PC und Xbox Cloud, im Early Access auf Steam sowie im Game Pass Ultimate und PC Game Pass – mach Dich bereit, erneut zu schrumpfen und in eine neue Welt einzutauchen! Mit Xbox Play Anywhere kannst…
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Giving back through Code Club: Meet Douglas
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe love hearing from members of the community and sharing the stories of amazing young people, volunteers, and educators who are using their passion for technology to create positive change in the world around them. Growing up in Mathare, one of Nairobi’s largest informal settlements, Douglas experienced first-hand what it meant to…
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Alvik Fight Club: A creative twist on coding, competition, and collaboration
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat happens when you hand an educational robot to a group of developers and ask them to build something fun? At Arduino, you get a multiplayer robot showdown that’s part battle, part programming lesson, and entirely Alvik. The idea for Alvik Fight Club first came to life during one of our internal…
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Code, karaoke, and creativity: Meet Matthew
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe love hearing from members of the community and sharing stories of amazing young people, volunteers, and educators who are using their passion for technology to create positive change in the world around them. It’s especially inspiring to hear about young people who are not only passionate about technology, but who are…
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Concept Bytes’ coffee table tracks people and walks itself across a room when called
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe term “mmWave” refers to radio waves with wavelengths on the millimeter scale. When it comes to wireless communications technology, like 5G, mmWave allows for very fast data transfer — though that comes at the expense of range. But mmWave technology also has some very useful sensing and scanning applications, which you…
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Building a Wi-Fi robot controller that accepts voice commands
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe whole point of a robot is that it can operate without direct control input from an operator. Except there are many exceptions and it isn’t uncommon for roboticists and operators to require direct control. The Tinkering Techie needed to add that capability to his rover robot and built his own Wi-Fi…
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Hello World 27 out now: Integrated computer science
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile in some countries, such as England, computing is taught as a standalone subject, in others, like the USA, computing concepts are integrated across the school curriculum. In our brand-new issue of Hello World, out today for free, educators share ways to integrate computer science into your classroom. Integrating CS to broaden…
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CNC water cooling and the PiPod
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe PiPod uses a USB DAC, components that enable the battery to work (including a battery charge module, battery protection circuit, and a battery indicator module), a Waveshare 4-inch DPI Square Capacitive Screen 720 × 720, and a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. Oh, and a 3D printer and about 500g of…
