Arduino: Nicla Voice, Birthday, and Alternatives
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Have you heard? Nicla Voice is out at CES 2023! | Arduino Blog
As announced at CES 2023 in Las Vegas, our tiny form factor family keeps growing: the 22.86 x 22.86 mm Nicla range now includes Nicla Voice, allowing for easy implementation of always-on speech recognition on the edge.
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Arduino brings birthday cake to life | Arduino Blog
A good birthday cake is all about the decoration. Usually that comes in the form of fancy frosting, fondant flourishes, and crazy candles. But what if you got electronics involved? That’s the question Natasha Dzurny answered when she used an Arduino to bring a birthday cake to life with epic LED lighting.
WS2812B individually addressable RGB LEDs, commonly referred to by Adafruit’s “NeoPixel” trade name, are unique because a user can control the color and brightness of every LED in a chain through a single data wire. Each LED passes the data along to the next, with control commands going to the addressed LED. The user can control as many LEDs as they want using only a single digital I/O pin on a microcontroller.
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The Best Arduino Alternatives of 2022
Arduino boards are popular open-source microcontrollers, but they're not all that's out there. Check out the best Arduino alternatives!