I’m a big fan of ThingM – todbot‘s Hacking Roomba was one of my first forays into hardware hacking, and his taking the time to personally reply to my questions when I ran into problems had a huge impact; in addition, I own a fair number of ThingM products, including BlinkM, MinM, MaxM, and LinkM. So, frankly they could put a blinking LED on Kickstarter and I’d probably back it just to support them! And…they kind of just did! The blink(1) is sort of a LinkM and BlinkM smooshed together in a smaller form factor, and made easier to use. The original *M products were intended for prototypers and designers, but the blink(1) opens up this kind of functionality to just about anyone thanks to its cross-platform compatibility and software. And since it can be used with IFTTT, you could for example set up your blink(1) to flash green when your friends check into the coffee shop down the street on foursquare (or red when your enemies do!?), or range from green to red as pollen levels rise in your area. The blink(1) allows color, brightness and pattern to be set, so the possibilities are virtually endless (OK, so realistically it’s probably something like 16,777,216 colors x 256 levels x 48 steps, but…)! I never thought it would come to this, but I am now an Early Bird backer of a blinking LED on Kickstarter! (o_O)
@IShJR
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