It’s a good thing that a ridiculous pun and a screenprint of Jean-Luc Picard on the bottom of the board is enough to qualify for the 2017 Hackaday Sci-Fi Contest, because [bobricius]’s Python-plus-Arduino card and environmental sensor potpourri is very cool.
The PCB design itself is great. It’s got a gigantic LED array, cutout for a wrist strap, and an onboard USB plug so you can program it just by sticking it in your computer; it shows up as a USB mass storage device when you plug it in. The files that show up on the “drive” are Micropython code that you can edit, save, and then run directly on the device. You can hardly beat that for convenience.
And there’s a full complement of sensors: not one but two temperature and humidity sensors, including our recent favorite BME280, which also reads barometric pressure. (We suspect that makes it a tri-corder.) There’s a real-time clock, a buzzer, and some buttons. Want to add more sensors? I2C ports are broken out for your convenience.
Besides having Star Trek flair, this board would give the various educational platforms a run for their money: Micro:bit, we’re looking at you. Very cool indeed!
This is terrific!! I grew up with Star Trek and love Kirk and Picard :)
It’s beautiful. I must have one.
I am going to steal this idea and put a Darth Vader on all my PCB assignments
If I used this card to replace the logic board in my G/F’s sewing machine would that “make it sew”?
Still no “like” button here {grumble}{grumble}, so I have to reply just to give you a +1(000).
https://www.google.com/search?q=make+it+sew&tbm=isch
I must say I have avoided micrpython but this seems like the perfect usage example/
Jean-luc needs some benzoyl peroxide.
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/5/51/LocutusOfBorg2367.jpg
A missed opportunity.
And a broken link.
Anyway, it’s a missed opportunity for a Locutus reference.
That is beautiful, but I am old (and my hands are too shaky for SMD, I’ve tried) – I needs me one pre-populated. Take my money!