With their cheap price tags, massive I/O provisions, and low power consumption, microcontrollers like the uber-popular ...

Who owns Arduino? We don’t mean metaphorically — we’d say that’s the community of users and developers who’ve all contributed to this amazing hardware/software ecosystem. We mean literally.

Project pages are remarkably detailed, complete with the hardware and software components, hand tools used, the Arduino sketch, schematics, and more often than not, a step-by-step tutorial.

Five years ago, this would have meant looking into what you could whip together on an Arduino ... and the hardware landscape more fluid. You don’t have to let software development concerns ...