Origianlly posted June 23, 2014… Last year in 2013, I backed one of the first projects on Dragon Innovation. It’s similar to Kickstarter but geared more for hardware and without the restrictions. Basically it’s a cross between an online shop and crowd sourcing mixed into one, since you can buy/support multiple of rewards. One of the launch campaigns was the Tessel. Tessel isn’t just another microcontroller platform, it’s platform that allows you to program it with Java but more specifically NodeJS! Pretty cool, ehh? There site has all the details http://tessel.io. But here are the specs from their site: The Nitty: Programmable via JavaScript 14 different hardware modules for added capabilites Compatible with 10,000’s of Node.js packages on NPN Deploy over …