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The Microview is a Tiny Arduino With Screen for $45 (Kickstarter)

posted by mrcoolbp on Tuesday March 25 2014, @09:12PM   
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.

• Hey! Look at that long title (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 25 2014, @09:22PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 25 2014, @09:22PM (#21270)

  Somebody has been hard at work.

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• Wait wait wait... Wait wait wait... (Score: 3, Funny) by Tork on Tuesday March 25 2014, @10:37PM

  by Tork (3914) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @10:37PM (#21288)

  Ok where's that AC that was bragging about his Arduino powered buttplug? He could finally get modded up!

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  • Re:Wait wait wait... (Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday March 26 2014, @10:15AM

    by tibman (134) on Wednesday March 26 2014, @10:15AM (#21504)

    Buttplug with a screen? Sort of scary.

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• I bought one I bought one (Score: 3, Interesting) by zeigerpuppy on Tuesday March 25 2014, @11:00PM

  by zeigerpuppy (1298) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @11:00PM (#21297)

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

  • Re:I bought one (Score: 1) by Urlax on Wednesday March 26 2014, @05:46AM

    by Urlax (3027) on Wednesday March 26 2014, @05:46AM (#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..

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• I wish i was nerdier (Score: 2) by buswolley on Tuesday March 25 2014, @11:17PM

  by buswolley (848) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @11:17PM (#21302)

  I think this really really cool.

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• Game on? Game on? (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 26 2014, @02:36AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 26 2014, @02:36AM (#21370)

  Competition for the raspberry pi?

  • Re:Game on? (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday March 26 2014, @04:31AM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Wednesday March 26 2014, @04:31AM (#21396)

    ...no.

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  • Re:Game on? (Score: 2) by Marneus68 on Wednesday March 26 2014, @04:51AM

    by Marneus68 (3572) on Wednesday March 26 2014, @04:51AM (#21401)

    This has pretty much nothing to do with it.

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  • No (Score: 1) by Fry on Thursday March 27 2014, @06:18AM

    by Fry (642) on Thursday March 27 2014, @06:18AM (#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.

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