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Thursday, March 27, 2014
So even though I swore I would never do Kickstarter again I found this little gem called the MICROVIEW and had to buy in. I love messing with Arduinos and making cool stuff and this just looked too cool to pass up (plus these guys have a good history so I feel good about backing them). I don't know what I will do with one of these, but I have lots of ideas.
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Monday, November 26, 2012
smARtDUINO Arduino projects without the wires!
So I just backed this new project on Kickstarter.com called smARtDUINO.
It's an Arduino compatible system that uses a couple of nice connectors to allow you to connect modules together to do prototyping without wires.
You snap the processor (there are a couple choices) onto a power module and snap that to a bus connector.
From there you can snap on LED's or switches, relays, GPS modules, all sorts of things.
Even to the point of connecting multiple processor cores to one unit!
It's really pretty cool, I can't wait to get my hands on my starter kit and see what I can do.
They even have a module that will allow me to connect the Digispark (see post below) to the system and a board that will give you the full Arduino pinout so you can use Arduino Shields with the smARtDUINO.
Update - January 2014: Finally after over a year of waiting (Estimated delivery was November 2012) I got my smARtDUINO parts. This was the project that killed Kickstarter for me. I'll never back another project on Kickstarter for sure. And if I am ever fortunate enough to meet Dimitri Albino in person, I hope to kick him in the man parts. This creep took $157,571.00 dollars and made a lot of promises only to follow them up with a lot of excuses. There were claims of Fraud and Misrepresentation. My plan is to one day assemble something out of the parts and then dump it all in a blender and grind it into little pieces of yellow dust.
I'll do my experimenting using some other version of Arduino. For now the parts sit in my basement still in the bag. I lost all interest in fooling around with this garbage months ago.
It's an Arduino compatible system that uses a couple of nice connectors to allow you to connect modules together to do prototyping without wires.
You snap the processor (there are a couple choices) onto a power module and snap that to a bus connector.
From there you can snap on LED's or switches, relays, GPS modules, all sorts of things.
Even to the point of connecting multiple processor cores to one unit!
It's really pretty cool, I can't wait to get my hands on my starter kit and see what I can do.
They even have a module that will allow me to connect the Digispark (see post below) to the system and a board that will give you the full Arduino pinout so you can use Arduino Shields with the smARtDUINO.
Update - January 2014: Finally after over a year of waiting (Estimated delivery was November 2012) I got my smARtDUINO parts. This was the project that killed Kickstarter for me. I'll never back another project on Kickstarter for sure. And if I am ever fortunate enough to meet Dimitri Albino in person, I hope to kick him in the man parts. This creep took $157,571.00 dollars and made a lot of promises only to follow them up with a lot of excuses. There were claims of Fraud and Misrepresentation. My plan is to one day assemble something out of the parts and then dump it all in a blender and grind it into little pieces of yellow dust.
I'll do my experimenting using some other version of Arduino. For now the parts sit in my basement still in the bag. I lost all interest in fooling around with this garbage months ago.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Just how small can an Arduino get? Meet DigiSpark!
**** UPDATE ****
WOW, This dude raised $313,318.00 of the $5000.00 he had hoped to raise!
He got 5964 backers.
Erik Kettenburg has a project up on Kickstarter that looks really awesome and it certainly looks like he's getting his backing! With 12 days to go, he has raised over $195,000 (of a $5000 goal) with over 4000 backers (Me being one of them!).
The product he is working on is a micro-sized Arduino (about the size of a quarter) called the DigiSpark.
I love the logic of this product. It's small and cheap enough that you can actually build it into a project. One of the biggest problems most of us hackers and builders face is creating something and then having to tear it all apart again to get our prized Micro-controller back out and reuse it to build another experiment. I have a full sized Arduino Uno dedicated to my Coffee pot project that I only use 4 of the pins for. This little guy would be much better suited for that purpose (especially when I get the smaller relay shield).
And at under $10 each, I'm getting 3 to start off with (and 1 relay shield).
It will feature
- Support for the Arduino IDE 1.0+ (OSX/Win/Linux)
- Power via USB or External Source - 5v or 7-35v (automatic selection)
- On-board 500ma 5V Regulator
- Built-in USB (and serial debugging)
- 6 I/O Pins (2 are used for USB only if your program actively communicates over USB, otherwise you can use all 6 even if you are programming via USB)
- 8k Flash Memory (about 6k after bootloader)
- I2C and SPI (vis USI)
- PWM on 3 pins (more possible with Software PWM)
- ADC on 4 pins
- Power LED and Test/Status LED (on Pin0)
And of course it is totally Open-Source/Hardware.
Let's see, the coffee maker will get one, there's a TV remote control that I want to build, these would fit perfectly in an HO train car, my Radio controlled cars might get some smarts, maybe my helicopters too, uh-oh....I'm going to need to order more of these when they become available on the Digistump.com website in December!
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