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CIRCUIT PLAYGROUND EXPRESS
Adafruit Industries LLC
How Adafruit developed Circuit Playground2
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2016-07-05 | By Adafruit Industries
While you’ve probably done a bit of Googling, now is the time got to get serious about researching your idea. You’ll need to review platforms, evaluate price points, and perform a competitive analysis. Now might also be a great time to look into existing intellectual property.
In this second video Ladyada the engineer will explain how she researches potential designs:
The toughest part is often being able to get the programming itself to be accessible. Look at various online and offline tools such as Scratch, Blockly, Johnny5/Nodejs, Firmata, codebender, etc.
A lot have compatibility with Arduino which we know really well. Other hardware tools that do the same are like MaKey MaKey, CodeBug and Micro Bit (and possibly even others we haven’t seen) but they depend on a fully-online-only and/or special compiler which are not ideal. It’s good to be able to have a wide range of programming languages available ranging from Scratch up to C++.
You may ask yourself things like do I want to have Bluetooth LE, or Wi-Fi? On one hand these are great features, but on the other it will add a lot of complexities. We decided to go with Arduino as it’s the lowest-cost and/or simplest platform possible that can do what we needed.
Come up with a name and trademark then search the registry on USPTO. Hopefully you’ll have picked something brand new.
Recommended Reading
- From Maker to Market 01 – Concept – How Adafruit developed Circuit Playground
- From Maker to Market 03 – Evaluation – How Adafruit developed Circuit Playground
- From Maker to Market 04 – Design – How Adafruit developed Circuit Playground
- From Maker to Market 05 – Prototyping – How Adafruit developed Circuit Playground
- From Maker to Market 06 – Funding – How Adafruit developed Circuit Playground
- From Maker to Market 07 – Marketing – How Adafruit developed Circuit Playground
- From Maker to Market 08 – Production – How Adafruit developed Circuit Playground
- From Maker to Market 09 – Distribution – How Adafruit developed Circuit Playground
- From Maker to Market 10 – Support – How Adafruit developed Circuit Playground
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