Making the Butterfly Beep

September 1st, 2005 in Links

Making the Butterfly Beep
“Imagine a pretty powerful microprocessor that can be programmed in C or Assembler, that has 512K of non-volatile (EEPROM) memory, a LCD display, a joystick for user navigation, a small piezo speaker for sound, a real time clock … and what really dropped my jaw: you can buy it for $20 from Digi-Key, and you need nothing besides free software and a simple serial connection cable to start developing applications for it.”