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FETCH THE WEATHER WITH THE MAKE CONTROLLER

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This easy starter project displays your local forecast.

By Brian Jepson

In the expanding universe of microcontroller boards, the MAKE Controller Kit fills the space between the easy, cheap Arduino and the more complex, powerful Gumstix devices. The low-power Arduino runs 8-bit machine code and can only do one thing at a time. The Linux-based Gumstix can do what a Linux-powered PC can do.

The MAKE Controller has the advantages of both, thanks to its FreeRTOS operating system; it can ...

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