Collaborate Disseminate
Although for most generations alive today the era of microcontrollers (MCU) feels like it starts somewhere with the Intel 8051 and AVR MCUs, the history of these self-contained computing marvels …read more Continue reading The Early History Of The Microcontroller: It Came From Texas
Today is a little tour back to the early 1980s when Mattel released the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Computer Labyrinth Game. [Cameron Kaiser] was dealing with a few boxes of old …read more Continue reading Dungeons and Dragons Board Game from the 1980s holds a TMS1100
Today is a little tour back to the early 1980s when Mattel released the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Computer Labyrinth Game. [Cameron Kaiser] was dealing with a few boxes of old …read more Continue reading Dungeons and Dragons Board Game from the 1980s holds a TMS1100
We use a microcontroller without a second thought, in applications where once we might have resorted to a brace of 74 logic chips. But how many of us have spared a thought for how the microcontroller evolved? It’s time to go back a few decades to look at the first …read more
Continue reading The TMS1000: The First Commercially Available Microcontroller