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November 22, 2013 03:51 am GMT
Arduinos are a godsend for the DIY/Tinkerer community, but theres all sorts of stuff they just cant do out of the box. Sure, you can add tons of functionality via strap-on boards called shields.. but those can get expensive quick. Want your Arduino project to be able to play sounds? Thatll be $20. Internet connectivity? $50. GPS? Another $50. At Disrupt Europe back in October, a 8-man team out of Egypt showed up and amazed to the point that they were plucked out of the exhibition hall and put on stage as audience choice. Their product? The 1Sheeld, a single shield that lets you replace all of those other shields with your smartphone. Today, that project went up on Kickstarter and almost immediately destroyed its fundraising goal. The idea is deceptively simple: when youre building things with Arduino, you want all sorts of sensors, inputs (like switches and sliders), and outputs (like screens and speakers.) Your smartphone already has tons of sensors in it. Your smartphones touchscreen can act as a switch, or a slider, or a keypad. Your smartphone can display information, or playback sound. Why not let the smartphone be the shield? Enter 1Sheeld. 1Sheeld connects your Arduino to your smartphone (Android only, for now) to hook into its display, accelerometer, magnetometer, Wi-Fi, cellular connectivity, GPS, gyroscope, etc. Meanwhile, pre-provided shield templates allow your smartphones display to emulate a switch, slider, keypad, or LCD display without you actually having to wire anything up. Running on your phone is a middle-man app, which passes the data back and forth (over Bluetooth) and lets you switch between the 1sheelds myriad behaviors. And if it doesnt do something you need it to do? The team is pledging to open up the platform to outside developers in time, allowing them to add new shields of their own. Hell, youll even be able to upload your custom shields to the app store and sellem there. Of course, you probably wont want to use 1sheeld in your project forever. Once you get it past the early prototype stage, youd probably want to swap it out for a more permanent solution. Theyve designed the software side of things with that in mind; wherever they can, their library keeps things as simple as possible (and as close to the original Arduino libraries as possible) to make it easier to swap things out down the road. The
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1Sheeld, A Super Clever All-Purpose Arduino Shield, Goes Up On Kickstarter And Immediately Breaks Its Goal
Arduinos are a godsend for the DIY/Tinkerer community, but theres all sorts of stuff they just cant do out of the box. Sure, you can add tons of functionality via strap-on boards called shields.. but those can get expensive quick. Want your Arduino project to be able to play sounds? Thatll be $20. Internet connectivity? $50. GPS? Another $50. At Disrupt Europe back in October, a 8-man team out of Egypt showed up and amazed to the point that they were plucked out of the exhibition hall and put on stage as audience choice. Their product? The 1Sheeld, a single shield that lets you replace all of those other shields with your smartphone. Today, that project went up on Kickstarter and almost immediately destroyed its fundraising goal. The idea is deceptively simple: when youre building things with Arduino, you want all sorts of sensors, inputs (like switches and sliders), and outputs (like screens and speakers.) Your smartphone already has tons of sensors in it. Your smartphones touchscreen can act as a switch, or a slider, or a keypad. Your smartphone can display information, or playback sound. Why not let the smartphone be the shield? Enter 1Sheeld. 1Sheeld connects your Arduino to your smartphone (Android only, for now) to hook into its display, accelerometer, magnetometer, Wi-Fi, cellular connectivity, GPS, gyroscope, etc. Meanwhile, pre-provided shield templates allow your smartphones display to emulate a switch, slider, keypad, or LCD display without you actually having to wire anything up. Running on your phone is a middle-man app, which passes the data back and forth (over Bluetooth) and lets you switch between the 1sheelds myriad behaviors. And if it doesnt do something you need it to do? The team is pledging to open up the platform to outside developers in time, allowing them to add new shields of their own. Hell, youll even be able to upload your custom shields to the app store and sellem there. Of course, you probably wont want to use 1sheeld in your project forever. Once you get it past the early prototype stage, youd probably want to swap it out for a more permanent solution. Theyve designed the software side of things with that in mind; wherever they can, their library keeps things as simple as possible (and as close to the original Arduino libraries as possible) to make it easier to swap things out down the road. TheOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/CSpJVqbmzO8/
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