[HH] RFduino Kickstarter project

[Tom Metro]

Stephen Ronan wrote:
> RFduino Kickstarter project... $136,000+ pledged of $5,000 goal.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1608192864/rfduino-iphone-bluetooth-40-arduino-compatible-boa

Nice. Looks like they are expected to sell for $19.

http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/70366-the-19-coin-sized-rfduino

  The $19 coin-sized RFDuino can best be described as an uber-mini board
  powered by Nordic's nRF51822 (ARM) Cortex M0 SoC.

  The device - designed by Open Source RF - offers Bluetooth 4.0 LE
  support, as well as software compatible with Arduino UNO and DUE
  board(s).
  [...]
  As expected, RFDuino is designated as open source hardware.
  [...]
  RFDuino devs are currently seeking funds on KickStarter, with a
  planned ship date of July 2013. A $19 pledge will get you a single
  RFDuino, while $39 buys an accompanying USB shield for sketch
  programming the board.

(They're sold out at the $19 level.)

See the video embedded in the above article for more detail. (It's
probably on the Kickstarter page too.)


> "The RFduino has a Nordic 32 bit ARM Cortex-M0 processor...

It sounds like the hardware largely consists of this off-the-shelf chip
from Nordic that combines Bluetooth RF and a Cortex-M0 microcontroller.
Probably intended for Bluetooth peripherals. The creativity was
packaging it up and putting together the software layer to make it
Arduino compatible.

 -Tom