@ Architect - ta - numbers updated
You should wait - you havenāt seen the stretch goal 
Lots of Univ of Tennessee fans here today. I remember now why I love this this forum! Can you do orange and white checkered?
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Orange is the new black, you know. I vote for Orange.
Or Green. Such underrated.
So my real vote however is BLUE. Then the carrier can be in Yellow.
Stretch goal isā¦
Gary Glitterā¢
I think youāre thinking of stretch lycra there ?
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lol
MY EYESā¦THE GOGGLES, THEY DO NOTHING!!!
@ mcalsyn - Please tell us a little more what these little boards will be doing for us? What, where, when, why. We need to know!
Off to manufacture they goā¦
Orac G30
16mm x 16mm
G30 uC
RTC xtal
8mb External Flash
Orac carrier
27mm x 22mm
3v3 Vreg
Orac pins broken out to 0.1in headers
@ terremce
[ol]As above
Middle Earth
4 days
Why not :D[/ol]
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Justin, are you old enough to associate your idea with this?
@ Dave McLaughlin - Yup and man enough to say I had a boyhood crush for Servalan :whistle:
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Didnāt we allā¦ 
Doesnāt the word āverdantā literally mean āgreenā?
Another color would be like having a blue āorangeā.
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@ mtylerjr - there are many colours in nature and not just green :
The PR department can give you the full story behind the brandā¦
But on another more serious noteā¦your a Cantabrian nowā¦ so get your spelding right 
Verdant is typically associated with āgreenā, but also lushness, richness and fullness. Green is more than a color, though, and more recently exists as a concept of ecological and environmental responsibility.
So, this whole idea is all pretty germinal (does that count as a pun?) and barely even counts as germinal, but the idea is to combine three concepts : a) A pervasive and widely distributed sensor/actuator/controller network, b) automation that engages in new ways to reduce total consumption footprint, c) automation that engages with us socially in a productive yet non-invasive fashion (i.e., āall good infrastructure is invisibleā).
So what are these boards for? Hopefully, they will grow to become a very rich collection of sensor, actuator, and control-point nodes with a minimal physical and electrical footprint, which act together with certain cloud resources to provide highly integrated, useful, and unobtrusive automation functionality in homes, autos, and business places.
Thereās no way that this hardware or these software concepts can be considered a final version of anything (none of it exists as much more than ideas today) but Justinās boards (and quite a few you havenāt seen yet) will form a collection of reference designs upon which we can build the device, mobile, web, and cloud services that will allow us to begin experimenting with the concept. If weāre successful in this initial part, you will be able to acquire his hardware and other related and supported hardware and self-host the Verdant hardware/software ecosystem, and participate in the evolution of this idea.
And, frankly, if that all sounds too lofty for you, youāll still be able to grab the boards and do your own interesting stuff with a very nice G30-based device ecosystem.
Thatās because is comes from the french āverdeā (green) which comes from the Latin āviridusā (green)
Even the middle english word for green was āvertā
But I get it. I wont let any asperger-esque arguments take over. You can have multicolored green things. 
Now weāre talking! Iāve never been a big fan of IoT model where the device is tied directly to the manufacturerās dev/data collecting website.
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BTW your concept reminds me of the Kickstarter fraud a few years ago on SmartDuino
Ok, well, Iāll take that the best way possible I guessā¦ Which I guess is to say that yes, the boards are yellow.