A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an old Speak and Spell that you want to repurpose ...

Forward-looking: While passive RFID-based systems do actually exist, reliably transmitting data within industrial environments can still be problematic. A newly approved standard aims to solve the ...

In May of 2025, MySQL celebrated its 30th anniversary. Not many technology projects go strong for three decades, let alone at the level of use that MySQL enjoys. MySQL is listed at #2 on the ...

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Today’s medication supply chain relies heavily on barcodes for tracking and authentication, and these are applied not only at the unit of sale — such as a box of medications — but also at the ...

In 2013, the United States Congress passed the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), a federal law mandating national standards to ensure the secure and traceable distribution of prescription drugs ...

Facepalm: A Missouri magician and molecular biologist found himself confronting the limits of modern biohacking after accidentally locking himself out of the technology implanted inside his own body.

Some members of the maker community are distraught about Arduino’s new terms of service (ToS), saying that the added rules put the company’s open source DNA at ...

New Gen2X innovations inhibit fraudulent items, reduce stray tag reads and focus on desired tags in enterprise use cases Impinj M770 and M780 series endpoint ICs add Gen2X support, target industrial ...

RFID is widely used in logistics, retail, manufacturing, and healthcare to track assets, inventory, and equipment. It helps businesses with organizing and improving daily visibility across locations.

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 ...

Qualcomm's acquisition gives it access to millions of developers in the Arduino ecosystem while also supporting its platform strategy for embedded devices, which now extends across hardware, software, ...