[Noisebridge-discuss] Mini Arduino Kickstarter Launch

[John Ellis]

Rachel,

There is some pretty tiny Bluetooth modules available from mouser or
digikey. Does it have to be xbee compatible?

-John

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:19 PM, rachel lyra hospodar
<rachelyra at gmail.com>wrote:

> There is a need for a tiny arduino that is designed for being sewn down.
> Can you make a tiny radio to go with it? The lilypad/xbee is ENORMOUS.
> Tinyfied sewable xbee/other mesh capable radios would be AMAZING.  Right
> now I do without mesh in my wearables projects to get a little cheaper and
> have fewer components - with the Jeenode board/HopeRF.
>
> Also for powering wearables, as they get more complex my preferance would
> be, rather than coin cells, distributed microcontrollers but centralized
> power, probably a cell phone battery in a belt pack? Support baked in for
> that would be nice.
>
> I confess I haven't looked at your project at all, so maybe you've
> addressed these things!
>
> R.
>
> mediumreality.com
> On Sep 20, 2012 9:59 PM, <kburns at tiny-circuits.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Noisebridge!
>>
>> I'm with SYN/HAK, the Akron, Ohio (USA) Hackerspace, and am in the
>> process of starting up an open source hardware company here in our city.  I
>> hope this doesn't come off as spam, but I'm trying to spread the word to
>> other Hackerspaces about our new open source project on Kickstarter called
>> the TinyDuino and TinyLily.  This is a family of boards that shrink the
>> size of the Arduino to a new low, but without giving up the signals,
>> processor power / memory, and expansion capabilities (via shields) that
>> make the Arduino so powerful.
>>
>> The TinyDuino is just 20mmx20mm (Smaller than a US Quarter)! with a coin
>> cell battery holder option, but still has stackable shield support and all
>> the Arduino shield signals available!  And it uses the same Atmel
>> microcontroller as used on the Arduino Uno.
>>
>> The TinyLily Mini is 14mm in diameter (Smaller than a US dime)!  This
>> board has large sewtabs for easy soldering to, and also uses the same
>> ATmega328p as used on an Uno.
>>
>> I'm interested in any feedback you have on this project, and look forward
>> to hearing everyone's thoughts.
>>
>>
>> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kenburns/tinyduino-the-tiny-arduino-compatible-platform-w-s
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Ken @ TinyCircuits (http://Tiny-Circuits.com)
>>
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