Embedded Systems

Meet the Arduino Clone That’s the Size of a AA Battery

Meet the Arduino Clone That’s the Size of a AA Battery

A clever design for a pint-sized, wireless Arduino clone that also turns a battery holder into a project box.

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Smart Baseball Allows You to Message it on Opening Day

Smart Baseball Allows You to Message it on Opening Day

Kansas City stages a 10-mile opening day pitch relay using a baseball that you can text message.

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Maker Faire New York: Rascal Micro

Maker Faire New York: Rascal Micro

The Rascal Micro is an open source embedded Linux platform that’s aimed at helping artists and scientists build web interfaces for their installations or instruments.

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KindleBerry Pi

KindleBerry Pi

On a recent trip to Europe, BC OSS enthusiast Gef Tremblay pieced together something he calls KindleBerry Pi from minimal kit he brought along on his journey. He’s networked a Kindle with a Raspberry Pi over USB and is multiplexing a terminal using GNU screen.

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Makey Awards 2012 Nominee 12, Atmel, Most Hackable Gadget

Makey Awards 2012 Nominee 12, Atmel, Most Hackable Gadget

Last year, when Phil wrote his widely-read Why Arduino Won column, searching “arduino” on the Atmel website didn’t return even a single hit. Since that time, Atmel has started taking notice, linking out to Arduino resources from their “Education” pages, issuing their own press releases to support important Arduino-related events, sponsoring Arduino-themed contests, and more. They joined us at BAMF 2012 and we are looking forward to seeing them, again, at World Maker Faire NY at the end of this month.

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 Feature-Packed Cubieboard

$49 Feature-Packed Cubieboard

Another pint-sized all-in-one ARM dev board, called the Cubieboard, has been announced. It packs a 1Ghz ARM cortex-A8 processor, OpenGL ES, 1GB ram, HDMI out, ethernet, 2 USB Host, 1 USB OTG, SATA, IR, and headers for i2c, LVDS, and more.

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