Gallery: LittleBits, a Favorite Tool of Hardware Hackers, Is Now Cloud-Enabled

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    The web app, pictured, alongside the pieces that come in the new Cloud Bits starter kit.
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    One of the funniest Beta creations using Little Bits: A gadget that blows up a Kanye-themed balloon every time his Instagram gets a Like.
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    The chain of parts that lies behind the Kanye Ego Inflater...
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    ...and some of the simple, DIY pieces of hardware required to turn the servo motors inputs into the mechanical energy to blow up a balloon.
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    Here, a remote fish feeder.
  • And here a set of lamps which are connected by the internet. Think of it as a kind of Forget Me Not When one goes on so...
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    And here, a set of lamps which are connected by the internet. Think of it as a kind of Forget Me Not: When one goes on, so does the other.
  • The modules required to make the lamps.
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    The modules required to make the lamps.
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    A DIY, smartphone-enabled thermostat...
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    ...and the set of bits required to create it.
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