Collaborate Disseminate
The US state wants to make sure employers don’t “overstep their bounds” by imposing mandatory employee microchipping. Continue reading Employers can’t force you to get microchipped, Indiana reps say
Clocks with hands that turn are all well and good for the common folk, but hacker types prefer something different. [Sjm4306] is one such person, and developed this analog dial clock with parts we’d almost consider retro by modern standards.
The microcontroller at the heart of the build is a …read more
Continue reading Analog Meter Clock Uses Parts From A Simpler Time
As the number and types of connected devices proliferates, market fragmentation and security vulnerabilities in the Internet of Things (IoT) have created significant challenges for developers. Hardware-based security is the only way to protect secret k… Continue reading Microchip’s Trust Platform provides secure key storage for low-, mid- and high-volume deployments
If you’re building a cubesat, great, just grab a microcontroller off the shelf, you probably don’t need to worry about radiation hardening. If you’re building an experiment for the ISS, just use any old microcontroller. Deep space? That’s a little harder, and you might need to look into radiation tolerant …read more
Continue reading Rad-Hard ARM Microcontrollers, Because Ceramic Components Are Just Cooler
Computer manufacturer Supermicro is still trying to lay to rest reports that the Chinese government tempered with its equipment to spy on Western cloud users. Continue reading Supermicro: We told you the tampering claims were false
Readers of Hackaday are no strangers to using a microcontroller to push data to WiFi. Even before the ESP8266 there were a variety of ways to do that. Now Microchip is joining the fray with a $29 board called the AVR-IOT WG that contains an 8-bit ATmega4808, a WiFi controller, and hardware-based crypto chip for authenticating with Google Cloud.
The board has a section with a USB port for charging a battery and debugging that looks like it is made to cut away. There are a number of LEDs and buttons along with a light sensor and a temperature sensor. …read more
Conservation scientists found that 261 out of 1,438 cactus species are unprotected by preserves or conservation regulations, putting them more at risk than mammals and birds. Continue reading A Booming Black Market Is Putting Many Cacti Species in Danger
Silicon and integrated circuits come and go, but when it comes to extended lifetime support from a company, it’s very, very hard to find fault with Microchip. They’re still selling the chip — new — that was the foundation of the Basic Stamp. That’s a part that’s being sold for twenty-five years. You can hardly find that sort of product support with a company that doesn’t deal in high-tech manufacturing.
While the good times of nearly unlimited support for products that are decades old isn’t coming to an end, it now has a cost. According to a press release from …read more
Continue reading There Is A Cost To Extended Lifetime Products. It’s 7.5%.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) was forced to suspend operations last week because of a malware outbreak at its factories. TSMC makes the A-series processors powering Apple’s popular gadgets, including the iPhone. In a press rel… Continue reading Malware outbreak forces Apple chip supplier to shut down operations; new iPhones could be delayed
Avnet has been named a global distribution partner for Microsemi, a subsidiary of Microchip. As an extension of Avnet’s relationship with Microchip, Avnet customers now have immediate access to the complete Microsemi portfolio of semiconductor and syst… Continue reading Avnet expands relationship with Microchip