Adafruit's Open-source Wearable Platform, Flora

ptorrone writes "Limor 'Ladyada' Fried's NYC based Open-source electronics studio, Adafruit, today announced their new open wearable platform called the FLORA (blog post & video). The FLORA is Arduino compatible as well as supporting a variety of sensors and add-on devices including: Bluetooth, GPS, 3-axis accelerometer, compass module, flex sensor, piezo, IR LED, push button, embroidered + capacitive keypad, OLED and more. The first round of hardware is in the hands of testers to create wearable projects."

Why Atmel?

[Timmmm]

Seems like a strange decision to use an Atmel chip when everyone is moving to Cortex M-3.

Does anyone care about "wearable" platforms?

[SuperBanana]

They've been hammering at this for years, and we have yet to see anything more than a jacket with buttons for your MP3 player enter the market.

What's the obsession?

Cool...

[wbr1]

I love anything that Limor Fried does. This may sound creepy, but she is like the perfect woman. I mean Christ, she names her cat MOSFET! [flickr.com] How could you not admire that?