AMS00x BLE Module

I found this little guy while looking for parts on Mouser the other day:   It's a $6.50 certified BLE module from ACKme Networks based on a Broadcom ARM Cortex-M3 SoC! The module breaks out the ADC, USART, SPI, I2C, PWM and GPIOs and ships with a pre-loaded firmware called TruConnect that lets you control the module via the serial port. They also have a dev board, with switches, buzzer, RGB LED, accelerometer, switching...

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THP 2014/2015, OpenMV, Kickstarter and Pi Day!

It's been a while since I last wrote about anything, been very busy with THP, Kickstarter, new projects and day dreaming (more on that later), also I've been documenting OpenMV mostly on Hackaday.io However, today is a very special day, it's Pi Day of course, but it’s not just any Pi Day, today at 9:26:53 will describe Pi up to 10 digits, yay!  Something that happens once in a lifetime, and if that's not enough,...

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