90: Stick It in a Pumpkin
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ThingM's Tod Kurt (@todbot) joined us to talk about the most important part of every embedded system: blinking lights.
ThingM has been making I2C lights (BlinkM, MinM and MaxM) since 2006.
The newer, more productized USB light is the Blink(1) (there is a coupon near the end of the show). Blink(1) had two successful kickstarters (second one).
The BlinkMs have an ATTiny85 (which is also on the Adafruit Trinket). The Blink(1)s have a PIC processor that is small, cheap, and supports USB quite well (PIC16F1455-I/ML and dev kit).
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