Lee Goldberg, of EDN, takes the chipKIT Wi-FIRE--Digilent's latest chipKIT board, powered by Microchip's 32-bit PIC32MZ microcontroller--combines it with Imagination's FlowCloud service, and proves for himself that building an Internet of Things (IoT) application out of the box can actually be quite simple! Read the EDN review

As a follow on to a recent post about chipKIT Pro and I/O Control, the Learn.Digilentinc site has put together a chipKIT Pro and Delays project to teach methods for using software delays in your code. Because the microcontroller executes code so quickly, you may want to slow down the processor to meet the needs of your application. This project

The Learn.Digilentinc site has some useful lessons, not only for beginners, but also for more advanced users of microcontrollers. For those of you who use chipKIT Pro products like chipKIT Pro MX7, Digilent put together the chipKIT Pro and I/O Control project to teach digital input and output using [MPLAB X

RobotEdh has spent quite some time building himself a chipKIT powered robot. Based on the Baron robot from DFRobot this monster is so packed with features it's a wonder it doesn't collapse under its own weight. Camera, IR sensors, encoders, touch sensors, temperature sensor, LCD screen, WiFi and X-Bee communications. So many things, in fact, that there is no way you could get it all working together on an Arduino.

Integrated circuits (ICs), microprocessors, microcontrollers (MCUs)... These are all similar names for devices like the PIC32 device that is the main IC on your chipKIT board. Such devices have many specifications that might make your head spin if you're new to this sort of thing. If you've ever found yourself intimidated when you see a spec list like the one to the left, or perhaps hopeful that someone might explain to you, in layman's terms, what all the technical jargon about microcontrollers REALLY means, then look no further. Josh Woldstad at