Keeping plants alive is easy if you’re diligent and never forget to check on your green friends. However, a little electronic ...

Scientists have developed a fuel cell that uses microbes in soil to produce electricity. The device can power underground ...

University of Arizona’s Maricopa Ag Center will host a May 19 workshop showing growers how to use OpenET data for smarter ...

The SparkFun Qwiic Soil Moisture Sensor (SEN-17731) is a simple breakout for measuring the moisture in soil and similar materials. The soil moisture sensor is pretty straightforward to use. The two ...

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Is the Arduino Uno Q the missing piece in your next project? With its hybrid design that fuses the precision of a microcontroller with the flexibility of a Linux-based single-board computer, this ...

Seeed Studio sent us a review sample of the XIAO Soil Moisture Sensor powered by the XIAO ESP32C6 wireless module and running on a single AA battery. Designed for ultra-low power consumption, it’s ...

BYU Field of the Future. Produced by BYU Video. A wheat field near Elberta, Utah, just became the most technically sophisticated wheat field on earth, thanks to a talented team of BYU professors and ...

Smartphone processor and modem maker Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino, the Italian company known mainly for its open source ecosystem of microcontrollers and the software that makes them function. In its ...

Over the last decade, the open-source movement has not only transformed the world of software, but also catalyzed a sweeping revolution in hardware tinkering. At the heart of this shift lies a ...