To Create Wearables: Adafruit Flora Version 3 Development Board

New Adafruit Flora Version 3 Development Board Now Available (+Video)

Julian Horsey | July 11, 2016

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Adafruit has this week made available the third generation of its awesome Adafruit Flora development board, making it available to purchase directly from the company’s online website priced at $14.95.
The circular Adafruit Flora has been specifically designed for Arduino wearable projects and is now even easier to prototype with the addition of crocodile clip compatible connections.

"Getting Started with FLORA, Adafruit's Wearables Platform." Source: https://learn.adafruit.com/getting-started-with-flora/overview

"This build‘s a great project for those of you with access to a 3d printer. It’s a teeny-weeny wearable camera which you can program to take a continuous stream or (more fun) use to take a time-lapse recording of your day." Source: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/wearable-pi-zero-camera/

<more at http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/new-adafruit-flora-version-3-11-07-2016/; related articles and links: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/wearable-pi-zero-camera/ (Wearable Pi Zero Camera from Adafruit) and https://blog.arduino.cc/2015/05/16/arduino-manufacturing-partnership-with-adafruit/ (Manufacturing Partnership with Adafruit Announced. May 16, 2015)>