Instead of falling in with the crowds these holidays, delight yourself and your loved ones with  bespoke digital electronic items. All these devices were carefully made by me, or my children as part of what I like to call "work experience."
 

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1. TermDriver

$28 from the Excamera Store
I like a simple device. This has a single serial-in line and a VGA plug, giving you a serial text terminal at up to 96 x 64. Use it to add a text display to any microcontroller. It draws standard ANSI graphics, so anything from the glorious text-era past is possible.


 

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2. SPIDriver

$27 from Crowd Supply

Want to drive SPI devices and see what's happening? Now that the crowdfunding campaign is over, you can buy it directly from the efficient people at Crowd Supply.
 

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3. I2CDriver

$29 from Crowd Supply
A new year resolution that makes your life better and is pretty easy to accomplish? Make yourself I2C-powerful in 2019. The USB connected driver/monitor/capture tool is now crowdfunding. If you're one of the few newsletter subscribers who hasn't backed it yet, I recommend you do so immediately, then return to this page and continue reading.

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4. Gameduino 3 original and 7"

$34.99 and $54.99 from the Excamera Store


The Gameduino 3 is the easiest to use Arduino gaming shield. We have the original 4.3" version, and the new 7" version in stock. Both use the FT810 24-bit subpixel-correct hardware accelerator to make everything you put on the screen look great.