What’s Cooking @ e-Gizmo: Episode 6 – New Kits for 2012

It’s 2012, the year the World ends. Whichever world it is, no one is quite sure yet. Well,  it’s life as usual @ e-Gizmo.

To start the year off, one of our main-stay product, the gizDuino – not an exact clone, but an Arduino compatible programmable controller board, will take a significant price plunge. Early December 2011, we decided to buy the main components of the gizDuino in volume. This resulted in huge savings that will be passed to you in terms of significantly reduced price.

Also this January, the first few units of our Universal Microcontroller Trainer Board will probably be available for sale. This trainer board will allow owners to self educate or hone their skills more easily with their favorite microcontroller – AVR, Zilog Encore!, PIC, and STM32 ARM7 , using any one of e-Gizmo gizDuino style boards fitted with these microcontroller, including gizDuino itself.

Now that I mentioned it, a STM32 ARM Cortex M3 board, a 32-bit speed demon, is now currently under development. We are making a start with an entry level high performance variant processor running at 30DMIPS. Even this entry level variant will leave to dust a similarly priced 8 bit microcontroller. If you have an application in mind that requires a lot of number crunching and fast processing speed, this is the one you want. We will probably see this in store by the middle of February this year.

Also, some new sensor kits are in the works. This includes a new Optical Color Sensor kit and an X-Y Motion Direction sensor.

We have a lot of other ideas in store for 2012. And this year, our kit and modules product lines will probably take a broader scope. Traditionally, e-Gizmo product lines had been focusing on robotics, microcontrollers, and sensors circuitry. Its time we take a shot on analog, audio, communications and general electronics kit that may be of interest to the pinoy hobbyists. Expect kits belonging to this class to start appearing by the second quarter of this year.

Electronics kits designed and made in the Philippines. We are now entering our 8th year serving you. e-Gizmo is owned and run by hobbyists like you. We are not the largest electronics kit provider in the Philippines, not yet, but with your inspiring support, we are now a leader, a leading innovator. I would like to grab this occasion to express our deep gratitude for your continuing support.

A happy and prosperous new year to all!

MixedSignal        January 1,2012

e-Gizmo Mechatronix Central

Manila, Philippines