Giampiero Baggiani

January 3, 2025

Open, modular platforms, such as Raspberry Pi and Arduino, offer accessible, customizable and cost-effective solutions that enable businesses to meet their specific needs without significant upfront costs and industrial businesses—especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)—are increasingly turning to them as a foundation for rapid innovation.

Jeremy S. Cook

January 3, 2025

Consider the humble CR2032 battery. Roughly the size of a quarter and capable of supplying around 225mAh at a nominal 3V, these little coin cells are used to power all manner of small electronic devices that require a small amount of power. One might assume they can easily discharge 10mA or so, to power something like an ATtiny85 microcontroller plus an LED constantly for hours–or much longer intermittently.