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CLUE from Adafruit A Smart Solution for IoT Projects By Tam Hanna (Slovakia)
The BBC micro:bit was a great success, far beyond the educational market it was intended for. Now, Adafruit’s CLUE has entered the fray with a fully-fledged display and far more memory. Complete with Bluetooth LE and a multitude of integrated sensors, it is especially suitable for smaller IoT projects.
Since the successes of Arduino and Raspberry Pi, it has become obvious that there is money to be made with educational computers of all kinds. In 2016, the BBC entered the race with the micro:bit, a single-board computer featuring a Bluetooth SoC from Nordic Semiconductor instead of a fully-fledged Linuxcapable processor.
Since then, incredible stories have emerged of businesses who have built entire companies around the exclusive distribution of the micro:bit ecosystem [1].
Figure 1: The attacker from the front ...
Figure 2: ... and from behind.
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The old saying that you “don’t eat at a well-filled pot all by yourself for too long” also applies to the field of embedded computing. The continued progress in the field of Bluetooth SoCs has led to the