Love this… Google Motorola’s Project Ara is...

Love this… Google Motorola’s Project Ara is “developing a free, open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones. We want to do for hardware what the Android platform has done for software: create a vibrant third-party developer ecosystem, lower the barriers to entry, increase the pace of innovation, and substantially compress development timelines.”

I’ve been waiting for modular Arduino-style hardware hacking to come to the Android since I did some projects using the Android Accessory Development Kit (ADK).  Hopefully this will let people add cellular access to robots and sensor networks as easily as it makes building phones for humans.

(via The Official Motorola Blog: Goodbye Sticky. Hello Ara. )