OpenBerry DIY messenger heavy on style, won’t replace your smartphone

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Looking for a weekend DIY project? Using a 26-key ButtonShield keyboard module and salvaging parts from his Open Source GameBoy project, Liquidware Antipasto blogger intheblitz has created the OpenBerry, a Arduino-based mobile messenger that’s possibly one-half part BlackBerry and and seven parts great icebreaker at parties (the kind of parties we go to, at least). Right now the functionality is minimal — it sends and receives messages synced to your

laptop via a XBee module. The interface is additionally lost, but a GUI is in apparently the works. See the device for yourself in the video after the break.

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OpenBerry DIY messenger heavy on style, won’t replace your smartphone originally arised on Engadget on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:12:00 EST.

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One Response to “OpenBerry DIY messenger heavy on style, won’t replace your smartphone”

  1. Mike says:
    March 20, 2009 at 10:07 pm

    Very exciting technology !!

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