![]() ![]() Looking at their website now (a year later) and the beans are retailing at US$30 each. This came in at US$80 including shipping to the U.K. I put down a pre-production backer payment for a "makers kit", which comprised 4 beans, replacement batteries, resistors, LED, Buzzer, twin-AA battery enclosure, some headers, sticky pads and a zip tie. Stumbling around the web one day, I came across the LightBlue Beans and these small devices looked interesting, so why not, become a backer and get something else to build upon. You just have to look at my article list and you can see there are a few related to this very subject. You just have to search the web to see just how many sites are dedicated to these boards and the guys and gals that build projects on the back of them. Microcontrollers are everywhere, whether it be Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Beaglebone to name a few of the common ones, they have certainly captured the imagination of hobbyists, creators, inventors or anything else you want to call them. Read on to meet one of those very tutorials/articles. Maybe you are working with something new that you have never developed for or there is a magnitude of things that all have to be mashed together to try and get results, whatever it may be the best thing you can do is just Get Stuck In! Steep learning curves may be involved, hacking away at sample code for similar areas just to see if you get that little bit of data, even a single byte of traffic which may be enough to say " we're getting somewhere". There can also be no Step 1 Step 2 Step 3.type articles and tutorials or if there are, they are still miles off what you are trying to work with, you often have to get the gloves off and get your hands dirty. When you begin to get more heavily involved with devices or are working with devices which are new to market, there isn't always someone around to hold your hand. ![]() Warning: This article and associated code could be classed as experimental/research. ![]()
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