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Adafruit's Open-source Wearable Platform, Flora

Posted by timothy on 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."

3 of 62 comments (clear)

  1. Why Atmel? by Timmmm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seems like a strange decision to use an Atmel chip when everyone is moving to Cortex M-3.

  2. Does anyone care about "wearable" platforms? by SuperBanana · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They've been hammering at this for years, and we have yet to see anything more than a jacket with buttons for your MP3 player enter the market.

    What's the obsession?

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  3. Cool... by wbr1 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I love anything that Limor Fried does. This may sound creepy, but she is like the perfect woman. I mean Christ, she names her cat MOSFET! How could you not admire that?

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