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What just happened? Qualcomm is buying Arduino – the Italian open-source darling of tinkerers, educators, and inventors – in a deal that underscores how the battle for the edge starts with the makers.

Arduino is being acquired by Qualcomm subject to regulatory approval for an undisclosed sum. Qualcomm Arduino introduces a new UNO form factor board, the Arduino UNO Q, which features both a STM32 MCU ...

One of the hottest markets in the artificial intelligence industry is selling chatbots that write computer code. Some call it “vibe-coding” because it encourages an AI coding assistant to do the grunt ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Claude code product manager Cat Wu, left, and Alex ...

Vibe coding is the next evolutionary step in how generative AI is impacting coding and the software development lifecycle. Vibe coding, or AI-assisted development, lets a developer or less technical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I closely examine the relatively new field ...

Paul and David Bradt’s Ardiono Projects offers multiple ways to use Arduino and Raspberry Pi microcontrollers for your model railroading projects. Buy the book here. Code for Button/Blink Test (SN095) ...

before you begin, make sure you have an Arduino Leonardo R3 ATmega32u4 with a Soldered USB HostShield. This code was designed for my Glorious Model O Mouse, so if it ...

Vibe coding allows manufacturing personnel to create software using everyday speech instead of traditional programming, enabling production managers to simply say "build a monitoring dashboard for ...

Embedr is an AI-powered Arduino-like IDE designed to simplify development for Arduino-compatible microcontrollers. It looks very similar to the Cursor code editor and uses Microsoft’s Monaco Editor ...