GENOMICON

There you go:

Sanguino: Arduino’s Big Brother from Zach ‘Iowa’ Hoeken on Vimeo.

These guys have taken the Arduino thing which is an open source way of linking a computer to home-made electronic gadgets… and replicated/morphed it so it’s got more capacity than the original. It’s like memetic software making it’s own hardware – but (for the moment) humans are part of the loop.

I love the excitement of this – hauled out of bed at 4.30 in the morning… I can just imagine those old printing-press guys back in the day going “Dude, that’s awesome… check it out” and “this must be like 200 in Swatch Time” and so on.

Now this may seem like a hobbyist thing, but remember that the computer that you’re using to read this has this as it’s ancestor:

The machine that inspired Bill Gates to write Basic. This is how it starts.

You can buy your own from Sanguino for 25$