Hi all,
In last week, a new electric toy was released in Japan. It's called "Japanino".
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/gakken_japanino_an_arduino_clone_in.html
Japanino is a variant of Arduino. So it can emulate PicoBoard, WeDo or other cool things.
An important point is Japanino is sold as a supplement of magazine. We can buy it at any bookstore in Japan. The price is 3360 yen (about $36.35).
And another remarkable point is it has a POV (Persistent Of Vision) display.
I connected this POV and Scratch by using Scratch Source Code. Here is a movie:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/7018441
In this movie, the POV reflects "say" block.
I'll demonstrate many gadgets included it at Scratch Day at Make: Tokyo Meeting 05 and Scratch@MIT.
http://day.scratch.mit.edu/event/264
Cheers,
Kazuhiro Abe
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