Chapter 6. Making Your Own Bits

Although there’s a huge library of Bits available for you to choose from, littleBits wants to make the library infinite! There are a few tools that help you build circuits to create your own Bits. This chapter covers some of these prototyping tools and tells you how you can even sell your Bits online on the Bitlab—the app store for hardware.

Before we introduce the tools that help you create your own Bits, it would be helpful to review some of the technical specifications of the littleBits platform. Let’s start by taking another close look at the bitSnap connector, shown in Figure 6-1.

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Figure 6-1. The connectors ...

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