We are excited to share the Kickstarter launch of GHI Electronic's new mbed-enabled platform, mBuino. mBuino is a programmable mbed-enabled keychain that features an ARM® Cortex™-M0 50Mhz, UART, SPI, and I2C.

Don’t let the pint-sized design fool you, this little board can do so much more than make your keys look cool. To start you can easily make the on-board LEDs blink or you could get a bit more creative and create your own video game platform (joystick, color display and all)…check out the example they show in their Kickstarter video. It is even programmable with mbed. By simply connecting the mBuino to your computer, and using the mbed online compiler, you are able to easily write code and save your code to the device.

This little ingenious idea came about as a ‘round table’ project from the engineers at GHI Electronics, LLC. They wanted to create something that reflects their passion for electronics…which I have to say, I think they have achieved! The profits from this Kickstarter will go to help funding their ‘OutrageousCircuits.com’ website which will allow this creative group of engineers a place to share more of their outrageous designs and products. This is just the beginning of their work on creating mbed development platforms and we are excited to see what they come up with next!

Help fund this project, here!

If you too want to build hardware that takes advantage of the mbed software platform and free mbed tools, take a look at (https://mbed.org/handbook/mbed-HDK).