One product we tested was called the PIC Clicker from Mikroelektonika (renowned producer of compilers, development boards, debuggers and books).
This was an initiative USB interface board a bit like an Arduino but with a PIC microprocessor chip on-board and a special socket call a Mikro Bus Socket that would accept a huge range of sensors and displays etc.
Using the Mikro Bus sockets we could attach various sensors and displays controllers to the PIC Clicker board :
Things like: LED displays, temperature sensors, motor controllers, proximity sensors, RFID readers, speech recognition, accelerometers, gyros, light detectors, buzzers etc. etc. a world of possibilities.
We programmed this little PIC Clicker board to work with FlowStone, our programming language, and a range of the Mikro bus Click boards an idea was born!
What if we could connect more then one Click board at the same time?
So the creative process began:
Version 1 – 3 Mikro Bus Sockets (code name phFingers)
Version 2 – More IO, Buttons, RC Servos outs etc. (phFingers 2)