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Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters

Posted by timothy on from the every-vending-machine-everywhere-please dept.

ptorrone writes "Earlier this week at Google I/O, Google announced the Android Open Accessory kit which uses the open source hardware platform, Arduino. MAKE magazine has an in-depth article about why Google choosing the Arduino matters, why Google picked Arduino and some predictions about what's next for Apple's 'Made for iPod' as well and what Microsoft/Nokia/Skype should do to keep up."

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  1. Slashdot comment system by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What's going on with the comment system? A couple of days ago the spacing between the folded comments was reduced to almost nothing, making the total page length smaller but giving cluttered text. Today that's reverted, but only the top half of the line of folded comments is being displayed - the text's been cut in half horizontally.

    Also, where exactly is there any information about the updates the slashdot site goes through? Or do things just keep changing oddly for no apparent reasons?

  2. Wake me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    when this thread dies down and the dust clears. Bits is bits, I dont care if they are x86, Power, ARM or otherwise just give me the porn and give it to me now!