Then there's the Arduino for the rest of us. LittleBits, one of the original five companies to join the Arduino At Heart program announced at last year’s Bay Area Maker Faire, specializes in the ...

Since the Arduino module has USB support built-in, you can create Etch-A-Sketches, Pong games and other programs that have LittleBits and your PC working in harmony.

The Arduino tent was a new edition to Maker Faire, and inside you could find nearly a dozen small chip developers. ChipKIT specializes in the first 32-bit microcontrollers.