Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Arduino Day: Massimo Announces Intelligent Module System

This could be a significant development for Arduino.

From Makezine:

Today at an Arduino Day celebration at MIT Massimo Banzi announced an upcoming initiative that will extend the Arduino platform to interconnected intelligent modules.
The project is code named “Eslov.” Banzi said it will be ready to demonstrate by this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, which will take place May 16 and 17 in San Mateo, California.
“A creative person will be able to plug together these modules and have a device in no time,” Banzi said. “It could take just seconds.”
 

Essentially Arduino is trying to do for modular kits what it did for microprocessors. According to Banzi, the modules will have embedded intelligence that will allow them to interact in new ways.
At the MIT event Banzi briefly showed images of the modular system.
 
In a few months, Banzi predicted, there may be hundreds of Arduino modules that could be assembled into products.
“Arduino is no longer a tool for making prototypes,” he said. “It’s a tool for making products.”
 

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