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Photography and illustrations by Sparkle Labs
Microcontroller Programming
By Sparkle Labs
Easy-to-program chips tell circuitry to do what you want.
Press a button and a light flashes a pattern. What makes it flash? It seems like there’s a tiny monkey in there flipping the switch. If so, many household items contain these tiny monkeys. They’re what send the infrared (IR) codes out of our remote controls and then decode them in our televisions. They run our washing machines and toasters. These tiny monkeys are microcontrollers, and you can train them to help you with your own projects.
Microcontrollers are small computers, all on one chip. ...
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