Pioneers Brick, is a small device built on a breadboard. It communicates with others of its kind using colours.
The brick is initialized with a random colour and adds new ones simply by being connected to fellow bricks.
The connecting bridge between two bricks is indicated by a blinking green light. If the contact has been successful, both devices will now include each other's initial colour.
the tiny has 4kb of flash memmory and 256 bytes of EEPROM memmory, just enough to create the pioneers brick
- use Arduino 1.0.5 ( 2.0 is not tested ) and install the attiny hardware extensions from http://code.google.com/p/arduino-tiny
- use an arduino as isp ( later we will use usb progarmmers )
- burn bootloader in Arduino IDE (tools->burn bootloader)