At the front of an auditorium filled with hundreds of people, a programmer from the Ukraine slipped on a pair of thick, black gloves, each dotted with flex sensors and a micro controller.

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Below the gun's leg hides a USB port for updating the onboard micro-controller.

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Ms Mather is not just skilled at using and programming the Arduino micro-controller.

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The Pyramid acts as a home base and remote control unit for the Orbit and features a custom-designed, reprogrammable micro-controller.

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It was known what type of centrifuges were being used: even to the extent of which industrial micro-controller was used to set them spinning and at what speed.

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At a recent competition for schools to come up with clever uses for the Raspberry Pi - the ultra-cheap micro-controller - there was a dearth of entries from state schools.

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Shares of micro-controller manufacturer Microchip Technology are down sharply in late trading after the company warned that sales for its fiscal first quarter ending June 30 will fall short of expectations.

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