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posted by mrcoolbp on Wednesday March 26 2014, @01:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the man-thats-tiny dept.

AndyTheAbsurd writes:

This miniature Arduino that includes an OLED display called the MicroView is an interesting development. It is available from Kickstarter and has already been funded over $250,000 (10 times the goal). I hadn't previously heard about their earlier project Ninja Blocks, but it's evidence the team knows how to bring a product to market already. From the article:

You basically get a micro controller and a lot of inputs and you can drive the display via software, allowing you to build wacky little projects with various sensors, motors, and I/O devices.

The Microview can be programmed and powered from multiple sources although the guys who made it, Geek Ammo, are offering a little serial-to-USB programmer for $10 extra. It seems like it works great for wearables and for creating tiny brains for robots and sensor systems. It can also be used as a small ambient data display for cars, computers, and other tools.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 26 2014, @01:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 26 2014, @01:22AM (#21270)

    Somebody has been hard at work.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Tork on Wednesday March 26 2014, @02:37AM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 26 2014, @02:37AM (#21288)
    Ok where's that AC that was bragging about his Arduino powered buttplug? He could finally get modded up!
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    • (Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday March 26 2014, @02:15PM

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 26 2014, @02:15PM (#21504)

      Buttplug with a screen? Sort of scary.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by zeigerpuppy on Wednesday March 26 2014, @03:00AM

    by zeigerpuppy (1298) on Wednesday March 26 2014, @03:00AM (#21297)

    Great concept and worthy developers. Their initial target of $25k was very conservative for such a product, glad to see it got funded.

    • (Score: 1) by Urlax on Wednesday March 26 2014, @09:46AM

      by Urlax (3027) on Wednesday March 26 2014, @09:46AM (#21414)

      I like it.

      with these kind of projects there is always a trade-off. you can get an arduino + oled from ebay for 12 dollars. you have to wire them up and get some kind of casing.

      on the otherhand this unit is a bit pricy, but has a nice enclosure. you don't need expensive equipment to create a PCB for the SMD connectors, and the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) will be a lot higher if i put this in my living room..

  • (Score: 2) by buswolley on Wednesday March 26 2014, @03:17AM

    by buswolley (848) on Wednesday March 26 2014, @03:17AM (#21302)

    I think this really really cool.

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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 26 2014, @06:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 26 2014, @06:36AM (#21370)

    Competition for the raspberry pi?

    • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday March 26 2014, @08:31AM

      by wonkey_monkey (279) on Wednesday March 26 2014, @08:31AM (#21396) Homepage

      ...no.

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    • (Score: 2) by Marneus68 on Wednesday March 26 2014, @08:51AM

      by Marneus68 (3572) on Wednesday March 26 2014, @08:51AM (#21401) Homepage

      This has pretty much nothing to do with it.

    • (Score: 1) by Fry on Thursday March 27 2014, @10:18AM

      by Fry (642) on Thursday March 27 2014, @10:18AM (#21969)

      This uses a dinky 16 MHz microcontroller with a few kB of external RAM, no? Doesn't the Pi run at several hundred MHz, have hundreds of megs (256? 512?) of RAM plus external storage (multi-GB SSD?), yadda yadda... ? (no, I'm not going to look it up)

      Sounds like an apples and bowling balls comparison.