[ Thanks to Linux User &
Developer magazine for this link. ]
“Gadgets are awesome. We buy them, use them and program
them. But do we build them? Most of us will say no. This is largely
because it’s a project too big for an individual to do. It’s highly
complex and needs a lot of investment in terms of hardware and
software licences. But let’s say a fairy godmother came along (the
good one, not the evil one) and made all these problems go away.
Would you design your own gadget then? Of course you would. And all
you need are some affordable hardware components and this guide to
set you off on the right foot…“Designing your own gadget is not very different from building
your own computer. The major difference is the form factor –
the components are a lot smaller than for a laptop or PC. After
all, you need to fit a whole computing system inside a small box,
together with other components like the display or wireless
radio.”