The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980.  They’ve since discontinued that ...

This is a truly hands-on approach to learning. [Kevin Darrah] ditched the microcontroller and is using push buttons to learn about 595 shift registers. The test rig uses two of the serial-in, parallel ...

8-bit 8051-based µC has an 8-bit A/D converter, 14-segment LCD driver, 8-Kbyte flash memory, and 256 Mbytes of RAM; includes one channel each of SPWM and PWM, up to 36 I/Os, and three 16-bit timers; ...

If you would like to learn more about the Internet of Things, and creating electronic devices you may be interested in a new micro controller called the Tinusaur, which has been created and is based ...