Other Stuff

A catagory for all sorts of other things I feel like documenting.

Whisper Node, a Wireless Arduino-based platform on a single battery.

There’s a new Kickstarter campaign up and running which combines an Arduino with a long range wireless transceiver module which has been designed to operate on very low power. Full details can be found in the Kickstarter campaign: Whisper Node Kickstarter Getting your Arduino to communicate to each other over-the-air, when powered by batteries, is now …

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Another RetroBall!

I made a previous post of how some people have made their own RetroBall unit: https://www.bradsprojects.com/a-couple-more-retroballs/ Well it’s great to see that people are still making their own version and the latest addition has been made by forum user Ulf Maier. He has kindly provided some photo’s of his build which happens to be a super …

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Oak – The WIFI enabled microcontroller DEV board.

Erik Kettenburg from over at digistump.com has come up with his fourth Kickstarter campaign named ‘Oak’. Oak is a tiny Arduino Compatible development board with built-in Wi-Fi and a secure cloud-powered platformcalled RootCloud (online IDE, REST API, and Dashboard) which makes it easy to create cloud-connected electronic devices, projects, and products. Oak is fully Arduino …

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StickyBUG – Make Your Own Arduino Shield

David John Barker (The guy behind my favourite programming IDE Swordfish Basic) has started up a Kickstarter campaign today where you can pledge for some StickyBUG’s! But what are StickyBUGs? Good question, but first some background information. Arduino is a great versatile electronics / programming platform that allows you to plug in various shields for …

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