sparkfun toys

I was thumbing through some of my old del.icio.us bookmarks today, and came across sparkfun electronics again. Man, their coolness doubles in size every six months. $25 for a half-inch square self-contained radio data link, serial interface that you can run with a microcontroller, 3V, built-in antenna. Wow …

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new microcontrollers

I've been playing with Phidgets recently, having a lot of fun. They're great for prototyping, but they would be too expensive to use for most of the production purposes I have in mind. I've been thinking that for gadgets I plan to make more than one of, I'd use an …

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