CEATEC JAPAN 2015

The CEATEC INNOVATION AWARDS, "As Selected by U.S. Journalists"Electronic Components

comments: Devices such as Adruino and Raspberry Pi are well known for accelerating the development of IoT devices, but Rohm has taken one step further with its Lazurite Fly module. This is a combination of the company’s super efficient Lazurite microcomputer (it’s actually 90 percent more efficient than Adruino), its battery-friendly Sub-GHz radio and its tiny motor driver; all of which stuffed into a small SD card-sized package. What better way to demonstrate this piece of technology than by placing it inside a graceful Japanese paper crane? The result is a radio-controlled Orizuru that weighs just 31 grams and has a relatively impressive flight time of five minutes. That is quite an achievement, to say the least, and we can only imagine what other crazy ideas that the Lazurite Fly can help realize in the near future.