We walked up to Bug Labs’ booth in the Sands Expo Center, and we asked them “well, what does it do?” Marketing rep Mehrshad Mansouri said “everything.” Of course, we were wondering just what the hell “everything” meant, but he wasn’t even kidding.
The Bug Labs’ bug is like LEGO for electronics. It all starts with the BUG Base unit which can accept a variety of modules like GPS, camera, sound, LCD, and more. The modules are smaller than a deck of cards, and a fully-equipped BUG Base unit isn’t much larger than a few chocolate bars stacked on top of one another.
The BUG Base runs on an open source software that allows users to write new applications for the existing modules. The company has also open sourced the hardware specs for their modules, so people can actually go out and use inexpensive parts to build and and program brand new modules to suit their purpose.
The BUG does everything. No, seriously.
In the above picture, you can see the BUG Base on the lower left with a bunch of modules configured for the unit. In the picture you can see the GPS unit, the LCD, the camera, and more. At the top of the picture, you can see the BUG unit configured with the camera, GPS and LCD modules so it works as a digital camera.
They have a ton of other new modules available as well, and this thing is really god damn cool. Imagine the possibilities of open source electronics lego.
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