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Scientist Shrinks Arduino To Size Of An AA Battery (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the fits-in-the-palm-of-your-hand dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Johan Kanflo has managed to make the already small Tiny328 Arduino clone into an even smaller computing platform about the size of a single AA battery. Not only will it fit in a typical AA battery holder, but it will actually draw power from the batteries beside it as it's wired in "backwards" (with the + and - poles reversed). The Arduino platform consists of open-source hardware, open-source software, and microcontroller-based kits, making it easy to (re)program the processors, and develop software for hardware applications using a java-clone and an easy-to-learn IDE. For those interested in the AAduino, Johan has made his creation available online on Github with instructions and schematics to build your own.

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  1. Re:Intelligent Vibrators? by baker_tony · · Score: 4, Funny

    With the size of the batteries a decent vibrator takes, you can fit in a full water cooled i7.