Appearances

July 17, 2008
We will be showing WineM at Taste3, the premier food, wine, art and culture conference. In the heart of Napa!
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BLINKM, THE SMART LED

On Sale Now from Little Bird Electronics (Australia), Cool Components (UK), tinker.it (UK), RobotItaly (IT), MechaRoboShop (JP), FunGizmos (US), NKC Electronics (US), Sparkfun Electronics (US), Maker Store (US)

AVAILABILITY: NOW

Have you wanted an LED that can fade from deep red to bright purple? Flash like a police light? Turn on with the subtle fade of an incandescent bulb? Flicker like a candle? That's BlinkM.

We've attached an ultra bright wide-angle RGB LED to a microcontroller. Using BlinkM Sequencer, our software that fuses a color picker with a drum machine, you program BlinkM to be any color, and blink and fade in virtually any pattern.

When you've programmed your BlinkM, you unplug it and pop it into your project. Apply 5 volts, and it does its thing, whether that's glowing your favorite pinkish purple, or pulse like an old neon light. All for under $15.

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