Proto Heaven
One of the highlights hidden in the
Sands at this yesr's International CES in
Las Vegas was Bug Labs’ BUGbase and
BUGmodules. This system is designed to
be modular and mobile. The $349 base
contains an ARM1136JF-S microcontroller
with MPEG4 hardware encoding/decoding,
graphic acceleration, and a 10/100 Ethernet
MAC. It also has 802.11b/g support.
Modules cost less than $100 and include a
digital video camera, an accelerometer, and
a touch-sensitive LCD. The base has four
sockets, two on each side, for modules.
Everything is open-source, including the
software. The Bug Module Interface system
uses Java and OSGi support that significantly
simplify module utilization. See associated figure
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