[Andrew] wonders why the SerialUSB() function on the Cortex M3-based Arduino Due is so much faster than Serial() on the Uno or Nano, and shares his observations in this short video. He sets up an e… ...

So he tried his hand with some really small SMD parts by building this USB to serial Arduino programmer. The chip he went with isn’t the FTDI part we’re used to.

Go to the mae-server (Win+R, "\\mae-server\Micro\Software"), open the Arduino breadboard folder, copy the hardware folder into My Documents\Arduino. Plug in your FTDI serial cable into a USB port on ...

The Arduino Due software comes with software examples for a WAV and OGG player. • 4 high-speed serial communication ports. • 70 input/output pins. • High-speed CAN interface.

Here’s the code we promised you in the current issue of Macworld. To download a Zip archive containing this code as well as the compiled script, click here. long MINUTES = 15; // take a break ...