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March 24, 2019 02:34 pm

What If Your Electronic Parts Were More Like Legos?

Long-time Slashdot reader beckman101 writes:This week Electric Dollar Store opened its doors, selling interchangeable postage-stamp sized I2C-based modules for prices between $1.00 and $1.80. The modules include lights, buzzers, counters and sensors — the range is aimed at electronic makers. These aren't manufacturing rejects shipping from Asia — they're assembled, tested and shipped from a small farming town in California, where winter labor is cheap. All the code for the project is BSD licensed. The project is a spin-off from the popular open-source I2CDriver hardware debugger.

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