Adafruit's Open-source Wearable Platform, Flora

Posted by timothy on Friday January 20, 2012 @11:49AM from the replace-all-your-clothes dept.

ptorrone writes "Limor 'Ladyada' Fried's NYC based Open-source electronics studio, Adafruit, today announced their new open wearable platform called the FLORA (blog post & video). The FLORA is Arduino compatible as well as supporting a variety of sensors and add-on devices including: Bluetooth, GPS, 3-axis accelerometer, compass module, flex sensor, piezo, IR LED, push button, embroidered + capacitive keypad, OLED and more. The first round of hardware is in the hands of testers to create wearable projects."

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Hands of testers.. by vencs · 2012-01-20 11:50 · Score: 2, Funny

Or you mean all over the testers.. :)
Careful now. by MrEricSir · 2012-01-20 13:09 · Score: 4, Funny

This is your first step towards becoming an aug. Soon you'll be forced to save the human race from the very man who inveted this technology (and eat a lot of candy bars along the way.)

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