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Small enough to be installed in the cables of your device. Freescale's best trick with these is putting them in business cards (between thin plastic).
by Qworg 13y ago
Small enough to be installed in the cables of your device.
Freescale's best trick with these is putting them in business cards (between thin plastic).
- 31reasons 13y agoDon't forget the battery, wifi and other electronics needed for fully functional system. It would make the entire device 5 times bigger. But its getting there when the entire system is as small as this.
- Qworg 13y agoWith an external base station that talks a different variety of RF, I think you could get an IoT system to "stacks on a coin cell". Heck, Electric Imp is close to that size. https://electricimp.com/ https://electricimp.com/
- FigBug 13y agoI don't think you'd put a full system in a cable, but you'd make smart cables like Apple's lightning cable or their video adapters that actually convert signals.
- dskhatri 13y agoSee arduboy, covered previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7325486 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7325486 http://bateske.com/arduboy/ http://bateske.com/arduboy/
- akiselev 13y agoThin film batteries + solar cells are already being mass manufactured so thats not a problem. RF chips are shrinking rapidly too and you'd need little more than a CC3000 from TI which is already pretty small (16.3 x 13.5 x 2mm)
- rbanffy 13y agoCan't you power it briefly via a large enough capacitor/antenna pair?