Sentence examples for microcontroller from inspiring English sources

An off-the-shelf printed circuit board (PCB), containing a microcontroller, a wireless receiver and a transmitter, is mounted on the insect's back.

They are now trying to figure out how best to relay radio messages from the relatively weak microcontroller on the roach's back through a series of base stations.

The microcontroller is wired to tiny stainless-steel electrodes surgically implanted inside the antennae and near the region surrounding the cerci.Wirelessly firing pulses to the cerci spurs the roach into action and zapping either of the two antennae creates an illusion of an obstacle that induces the roach to turn.

To prevent any neural damage, the microcontroller monitors the interface between the tissue and the current-carrying electrodes.

In 2012 it raised over $100,000 on Kickstarter to build ArduSat, an open-source nanosatellite based around the popular Arduino microcontroller.

Depending on how one defines a microprocessor or microcontroller, claims for the first such device fall in a chronology between 1971 and 1976.

When car firms realised that eight factories belonging to Renasas, a crucial supplier of the microcontrollers that run a vehicle's electronics, had been damaged, they sent 2,500 of their own staff to help it restart.

Some of those little-known firms, such as Renesas Electronics, whose tiny microcontrollers are vital for the car industry, are recovering fast which will help the wheels of the global economy spin a bit more quickly.

And besides open-source software, product developers now have low-cost open-source hardware they can use too, such as Arduino microcontrollers.Medtech, as the business is known, is particularly attractive to inventors because the market is eager for new devices that can improve people's lives, help with treatments and make the jobs of health-care workers easier.

Modern cars are essentially a collection of computers on wheels, packed with many microcontrollers that govern their engines, brakes and so forth.

For hardware the list includes all of the above plus 3D printers, sensors and microcontrollers which bridge the analogue and the digital worlds.