From PC World: School kids and hardware enthusiasts who want to start tinkering with Intel’s tiny Curie chip will be able to get their hands on it early next year in the form of an Arduino development board.
Curie is a new chip module that Intel showed at the International CES in January. About a centimeter across, it includes a 32-bit microcontroller, Bluetooth Low Energy for connectivity, a small amount of RAM and Flash, and a six-axis sensor with a gyrometer and accelerometer.
The chip is built for wearable devices like a smart pendant or smart bracelet, but it could go into just about any small gadget that doesn’t need a lot of local processing power, such as a remote-controlled car.
Arduino’s Curie board will be marketed as Arduino 101 in the U.S. and as Genuino 101 overseas, in line with how Arduino brands its other products. It will be priced at US$30, or about 27 euros, and go on sale in the first quarter next year.
The board isn’t really small enough to build a decent wearable—it’s 7cm long and 5.5cm wide—but it’s OK for prototypes and getting familiar with Curie’s capabilities. Intel or its partners are expected to offer smaller Curie boards in the future.
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