Or in other words, nearly everything we saw in The Jetsons is a reality today.
With littleBits' newSmart Home Kit, you’re able to do just that.
Created by Ayah Bdeir, it started as a tool to help designers incorporate electronics into the prototyping process.
Today, it’s much more than that.
Think of them as Lego bricks for the iPad generation.
The Smart Home Kit we’ll be looking at today is tailor-made for home automation projects.
The simplicity of littleBits is perhaps its biggest selling point.
Modules are color-coded into one of four categories for easy recognition.
Everything starts with a blue module which supplies the power necessary to get you up and running.
Pink modules represent inputs and include things like buttons, switches and sensors.
They act as they eyes and ears of whatever you build.
Orange modules fall into the wire category.
Last but not least are the green modules, the outputs.
Consisting of lights, motors, audio and more, these are the bits that generally make things happen.
That’s where littleBits' website came in extremely handy.
Building with littleBits
I’m not the most creative person in the world.
Fortunately, you don’t have to be to use littleBits.
Building functional projects is so easy, a child could do it.
In fact, that’s one of their key demographics but we’ll get to that in a bit.
For now, it’s time to create something smart.
Beforehand, I used the SD card adapter to load a few tracks onto the microSD card.
The sound quality actually wasn’t too bad from the synth speaker, all things considered.
I tried the headphone jack and again, I was pretty impressed with what I heard.
