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.
Embedded Systems
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.
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.
Adafruit Offers Sneak Peek at Raspberry Pi WebIDE
Adafruit’s new WebIDE will let you code and run programs for your Raspberry Pi from a web browser on any computer.
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.
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.
$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.
