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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 dissy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

    With PWM support, I've bit-banged composite video with only a single IO pin.
    Also a lot of the new LCD/oLED controllers are a serial interface like i2c or SPI, which would be an option here too.

    Just combine this not-yet-available chip with one of those not-yet-available flexible/wearable oLED strips sewn into the ass of said sweatpants, and the juice is on.