Lego-like electronic components
Looking for a new hobby? Enjoyed playing with Lego when you were little?
The Google Reader sign-in page can be addictive: the poplar blog posts that appear there are often funny and interesting. Like this one yesterday: Introducing the Illuminato X Machina.
Apparently Liquidware is a company/organisation that manufactures electronic components in an open source spirit. You have all kinds of components that you can plug together and that are programmable with the available C++ IDE for Windows or Mac.
Their latest product is the Illuminato X Machina from the blog post above, which is basically a small motherboard with a 72 MHz CPU, storage and interfaces and which can be attached to other cells to increase computation power.
A early funny (geeky) example of the possibilities:
You can order any component separately or in starter kits from the Liquidware shop. I believe Christmas is on it’s way!
Tags: hardware
