Ooh! LittleBits!
Tonight, after a long 10 days of writing The Book, I’m finally getting down to playing with LittleBits (http://www.littlebits.cc), an open source electronics starter kit that’s literally so simple I can create a teeny vibrating motor within 30s of removing the magnetic components from the box. These little fellas are far more easy to use than the circuits and breadboards Kat and I were trying to wrangle in SEv1.0, and they will power many of the moving and interactive parts in SE2.0.
I’ve only got the starter kit at the moment, but I have many more thingies on order. Very cool project developed by Ayah Bdeir of MIT Media Lab, and recommended to me by David Over at the Royal Geographic Society.
