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File this under "why didn't someone think of this before?" Maker Johan Kanflo has cooked up an Arduino board that fits into a AA battery housing. The "AAduino" can also be powered by a single AA, but still packs a pair of temperature sensors and an LED. The image below tells the rest of this story. ® AAduino

  1. happy but not clappy
    Pint

    This is great...but get his name right...and link

    It's Johan Kanflo. Link here: http://johan.kanflo.com/the-aaduino/

    1. james 68

      Re: This is great...but get his name right...and link

      It's the kind of sloppy "soundbite" reporting I am coming to expect from this author tbh. Surprised he didn't add in some fanciful make believe to spice it up a bit.

  2. ZSn

    mkr1000

    While this comes in the 'cute' category the mkr1000 the recently released IoT arduino is worthy of a comment more than this.

  3. DropBear

    Cute but a bit meh...

    I'll tell you why nobody did this before - because the utility is rather limited when one wants to do _anything_ other than measure a temperature and radio it away. The PCB is enclosed in the battery box (and it better be in a closed box because not much else is keeping it there) and any I/O you'd want to do you'd have to wire through that - meaning you might as well keep your PCB next to whatever else you're connecting to. The gimmick of stuffing the thing next to the batteries only has notable advantages if there's nothing else connected...

  4. Thunderbird 2

    Been done before

    Well apart from the operating from a single AA

    http://jeelabs.net/projects/hardware/wiki/JeeNode

    Jeenode will operate from 3.5 - 13V

    Been around since 2009

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