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Announcing Adafruit Gemma – Miniature Wearable Electronic Platform

Posted by Unknown on from the honey-i-shrunk-the-microcontroller dept.

coop0030 writes "Open source hardware company Adafruit has announced a new tiny wearable electronics platform board called the Gemma. The Gemma is a tiny, 1-inch diameter and 4-mm thick package. It's powered by an Attiny85 and programmable with an Arduino IDE over USB. There are three available I/O pins, one of which is also an analog input and two of which can do PWM output. Gemma is currently wrapping up development, but should be available soon."

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  1. Re:It's all good and interesting... by vlm · · Score: 3, Funny

    but does it run Crysis?

    Yes but with only two PWM outputs all you get is two pixels.

    In a way I'm glad this stuff isn't too popular... womens sweatpants flashing out morse code "juicy" isn't all that appealing.

    One unfortunate thing is its an inch around. A hair smaller (24 mm?) and it would fit in a "one inch" model rocket tube.

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  2. Re:It's all good and interesting... by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you enjoy being fondled and yelled at while a nightstick is at your throat? Yes it is 100% TSA friendly.

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