The LilyPad XBee a sew-in wearable radio is now available from SparkFun Electronics! It can be paired with LilyPad wearable sensors, custom built sensors and a variety of output devices to create a complete wireless wearable system. The board is $14.95 (XBee sold separately). Wow, from 7-in-7 exercise to commercially produced item in five months.

  Wow, it’s official. ThinkGeek just launched our new Botanicalls Kits online in their store and newsletter. We might do the trifecta by getting into their printed catalog so check your mailbox daily. Gizmodo, Wired News  and a bunch of other blogs covered the launch, but the real fun is making your own, so get on ThinkGeek and buy yourself

Adafruit is selling the new Botanicalls Kits, and there’s a lovely post from Lady Ada herself about the update. We’re thrilled to have such staunch supporters and to be in the mix with so many other groovy kits. So please, switch that TV off. It’s time to tune in to your potted pals with a brand-new Botanicalls

Wearable radios are coming for your clothes! The LilyPad XBee sew-on ZigBee boards just headed out for manufacture. We finished testing the final green prototype version, nudged in a few improvements and about four weeks from now they’ll be commercially available. Pricing and source to be announced when the boards go live. For now, we

The November 2008 issue of Wired Magazine just hit the stands. It features an article by Clive Thompson about open-source hardware that includes Botanicalls, with a picture of our new Botanicalls Kit. The article focuses on Arduino with great quotes from our friends at NYCResistor, where I’ll be co-teaching a class later this year. Look

Recently created a page in the projects area where I can post simple Arduino functions that I frequently reuse. There’s my standby for blinking a light along with code for buzzing a buzzer, smoothing some output over time, having an LED blink out a version number and a modification of the map() function that handles