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A Hardware Mashup Device Running Linux

Posted by Soulskill on from the diversity-breeds-creativity dept.

jonniee writes "Mike Riley over at Dr. Dobb's takes a look at 'The BUG,' from Bug labs. It's a Linux-based, Java-programmable electronic base with I/O ports for connecting BUGmodules — individual modules that supply additional functionality to the BUGbase. Four BUGmodules currently exist: a color LCD screen, a combined motion detector/accelerometer, GPS, and a 2-megapixel color camera. You can think of it as 'electronic LEGOs' that let you build different devices depending on how you plug the modules together."

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  1. Re:Ideas by Yvan256 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So what you're saying is that the next version of the iPod touch may be cheaper than this (when taking all the modules into account)?

    If the next version has the camera and GPS, that is.