July 15, 2008 - 3:40 P.M.
Arduino for micro-deployment
- TAGS:Arduino, Embedded Computing
- IT TOPICS:Emerging Technology, Hardware
I'm a sucker for the idea of having of multiple computing devices around the house doing and monitoring different things. I think it's the childhood memories of lots of flashing lights on control panels marked with completely useless names.
I like the idea of the Chumby, which has the display, but for all those discrete monitoring/control devices I prefer the idea of the Arduino board. About the size of a pack of a stick gum, and with USB and analog and digital I/O.
Network access is missing, so it couldn't be used for live connectivity without sacrificing some of the I/O, but I can still see some interesting uses of such a small board.
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