{"id":546,"date":"2012-05-05T05:40:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T19:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/?p=546"},"modified":"2016-09-09T09:28:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T09:28:48","slug":"more-inspirations-than-i-can-poke-a-stick-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/2012\/05\/more-inspirations-than-i-can-poke-a-stick-at\/","title":{"rendered":"More inspirations (than you can poke a stick at)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are truly so many really interesting projects around, it is getting hard to stop reading, and hard to stop buying and it is becoming a challenge to make time to progress my own projects!<\/p>\n<p>There is a LOT of really interesting activity in the &#8216;large power&#8217; board space &#8211; ie run an operating system and have access to the IO. There has been a lot of work put into the <a title=\"openWrt Linux distribution for embedded devices.\" href=\"http:\/\/openwrt.org\/\">openWRT<\/a> project and supporting a wide range of off the shelf hardware. Other groups are creating new hardware and development environments, some examples are:<br \/>\nJust announced this week was the <a title=\"Lophilo open source Linux FPGA development board\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lophilo.com\/\">Lophilo<\/a>, it looks to beat the <a title=\"Olinuxino 1.2 GHz single board computer\" href=\"http:\/\/dangerousprototypes.com\/2012\/04\/27\/olinuxino-1-2-ghz-single-board-computer\/\">Olinuxino<\/a> board to market. There is an interesting discussion about the\u00a0the <a title=\"Olinuxino 1.2 GHz single board computer\" href=\"http:\/\/dangerousprototypes.com\/2012\/04\/27\/olinuxino-1-2-ghz-single-board-computer\/\">Olinuxino<\/a> and rPi (now delivering the boards!) in the DangerousPrototypes forums and of course there is also the <a title=\"dangerousprototypes web platform\" href=\"http:\/\/dangerousprototypes.com\/forum\/viewforum.php?f=24\">DangerousPrototypes Web Platform<\/a>. Microsoft have already released their open source Gadgeteer and in recent days even Intel announced they are about to release a system in this space.<\/p>\n<p>Other things that caught my attention include:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>more fantastic <a title=\"Manufacturing insights from Bunnie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bunniestudios.com\/blog\/?p=2337\">manufacturing insights from Bunnie<\/a><\/li>\n<li>This really interesting <a title=\"part tester\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikrocontroller.net\/articles\/AVR-Transistortester\">part tester from Germany<\/a> that can identify resistors, capacitors, transistors and FETs and also key properties has triggered a lot of activity to create even better versions:- <a title=\"DP Part Ninja (PIC version)\" href=\"http:\/\/dangerousprototypes.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=19&amp;t=3764\">DP Part Ninja (PIC version)<\/a> and <a title=\"Part Tester (AVR version)\" href=\"http:\/\/dangerousprototypes.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=19&amp;t=3260\">Part Tester (AVR version)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$5 micro controller <a title=\"$5 micro controller MC HCK\" href=\"http:\/\/mchck.org\">MC HCK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Little Wire multi function programmer\" href=\"http:\/\/kehribar.me\/projects\/Little-Wire\/\">Little Wire<\/a> \u00a0multi function programmer<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"AVR In-System Programmer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sowbug.com\/\">AVR In-System Programmer<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Discovering that there are several Arduino interpreters and emulators and even <a title=\"Arduino simulator\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arduinodev.com\/ardusim-project-started-aiming-to-be-a-practical-arduino-simulator\/\">new ones under development<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Arduino compiling inside Codeblocks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arduinodev.com\/codeblocks\/\">Arduino compiling inside Codeblocks<\/a>, or <a title=\"native AVR (ie non-Arduino) compiling.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnhenryshammer.com\/WOW2\/pagesHowTo\/atmelPage.php#CODEBLOCKS\">native AVR (ie non-Arduino) compiling.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Graphical Programming Language for Arduino\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.ardublock.com\/\">Ardublock<\/a>, a Graphical Programming Language for Arduino has been very active and now translated into many languages<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Edward Giles\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.xinchejian.com\/wiki\/User:Edward.giles\">Edward Giles<\/a> (11 years old) is developing a <a title=\"musical instrument kit\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.xinchejian.com\/w\/index.php?title=Musical_Instruments&amp;redirect=no\">musical instrument kit<\/a> based on his own PCB!<\/li>\n<li>Just out yesterday <a title=\"Swarm robots\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.xinchejian.com\/wiki\/Swarm_robots\">Swarm robots<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are truly so many really interesting projects around, it is getting hard to stop reading, and hard to stop buying and it is becoming a challenge to make time to progress my own projects! There is a LOT of really interesting activity in the &#8216;large power&#8217; board space &#8211; ie run an operating system &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/2012\/05\/more-inspirations-than-i-can-poke-a-stick-at\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More inspirations (than you can poke a stick at)!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,13],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-news","category-open-source","tag-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}