I like to try new technologies and see what there is to learn and get a first hand feel for their potential. When I see some interesting new technology, I immediately start thinking of ways it might be used and often conceptualize little projects in my head. Some of these are so intriguing, I add them to a mental "to do" list.
It seems my "to do" list for tech projects is proportional to the pace of technology development, which is exponentially growing, so the list is always in danger of getting unmanageable. However, I just prioritize and rank them in order of desirability.
For example, I have a collection of electronics "junk" (although I have much more attractive names for it) much of which is on my "to do" project list, but the priority has slipped so far down the list, it is doubtful I will get around to many of those projects. Some people would call this hoarding, buy my hoard pays off enough in re-purposing applications for me to "justify" its existence.
In the specific area of micro controller cards, my to do list includes the BBC micro:bit (I'm still hopeful that road test will rise from the ashes) a STAR Otto (depending on price) and the Intel QUARK D2000 - at $15 there is a lot of technology for the price, and I want to get a feel for the potential of a new major player in the micro controller market. I have not actually decided what application I want to use to test the technology, which is holding up my purchasing decision. There are lots of applications - just nothing really grabbing my imagination right now.
Can any of you suggest a neat application? It doesn't need to be complex, I'm interested in how slick the IDE is and maybe power consumption. The rest of the hardware is pretty well described in datasheets.
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