For the past few years or so, Microsoft has been embracing open-source software. Open-sourcing PowerShell, MSBuild, and its artificial intelligence framework CNTK are just a few examples of the ...

Hello Ars,<BR><BR>Visual Studio makes it incredibly easy for me to make GUI programs in Visual Basic and Visual C#. I've always wondered, is using Visual Basic/C#, dropping controls onto a form and ...

A large installed base of powered speakers from a defunct manufacturer and a dwindling supply of working remote controls. Sounds like nightmare fuel for an AV professional – unless you take matters ...

Usually, I use the Serial Monitor of the Arduino IDE to communicate with the Arduino hardware. But now, I want to build an application on my computer that allows me to click some buttons to control ...

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Windows/Mac/Linux: Programming an Arduino isn't especially difficult, but if you're looking for a more visual method, Scratch for Arduino (S4A) uses MIT's Scratch as a groundwork for teaching kids (or ...