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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   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, 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?

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  • (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.

  • (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.

  • (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.