Announcing Adafruit Gemma – Miniature wearable electronic platform

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35 pointsjwcooper6 comments

Do you mean the lilypad?

http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/LilyPad/index.html

Nope, this is an even smaller version of the already tiny FLORA platform from Adafruit. https://www.adafruit.com/products/659 It says on that page that it is a completely different platform. Here's their FLORA project page: http://learn.adafruit.com/category/flora

Lilypads are quite a bit larger and more capable.

This little guy is only about 1" (25mm) in diameter with an 8k processor and 3 usable pins.

On the other hand, it is programmable straight from microUSB which is very cool and makes it more accessible. (Looks like she did a software USB implementation, I don't think that MCU has USB support.)

wouldn't surprise me about a software USB. The usbtinyisp also does That. That does mean a decent amount of space though is going to be on the bootloader (2k or so) for USB and programming. Not horrible but still significant if its like the usbtinyisp's implementation.

the FLORA and the GEMMA are not the lilypad, check out the FLORA page - GPS units, RGB LEDs, all possible with our platform. http://www.adafruit.com/flora

There's a lot of potential in this, could help Quantified self people track a bunch of stuff.

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