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D.Tools is Stanford Design School’s entry into the microcontroller module market. D-tools is based on the Atmel microcontrollers, like Wiring and Arduino. Also like those modules, it’s based on Pascal Stang’s AVR C libraries for the Atmel micros.

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EZIO is a PIC based module that can read sensors, write to outputs, and send PWM signals to its outputs, all with simple serial commands.

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Dan Mikesell sent this link to a site explaining how to make your own organic LEDs (OLEDs). Assuming you’ve got access to a chemistry lab, it seems very possible. I’d be interested to know how noxious the chemicals are, though. We were both wondering what happens when you start making OLEDS in different shapes, and on different surfaces, like fabric, plastic, metal, etc.

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Sometimes you want to send a binary value into Processing (say, from a microcontroller) and check the individual bits of the value. This example checks the bits of an 8-bit number individually, and reports whether each one is a 0 or a 1.

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