Arduino gets flexible, yes, indeed. Just read this news through Dorbot ALBA mailing list, so I thought to share the few info I found through this article on MAKE magazine.
What you see in the picture is an experimentation of an Arduino-compatible board on flexible printed circuit (FPC) material, developed in this same moment by the folks at Seeed Studio.

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The material insulating the circuit is very similar to the traditional one, except for his flexibility. This means you would be able to bend and change the shape of your Arduino board.
You can view a complete list of feature at Seeed Studio website.
This is not a final product, folks are working on the production of few prototypes to give out to some lucky, want-absolutely-to-try-that guys who will propose interesting usage of the new hardware… well, it doesn’t look so hard anymore.

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via Openlab list

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:: Open Source Hardware User Group meeting #3 ::
:: Thursday 1st July 2010, London SW1 ::

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For the third Open Source Hardware User Group meeting we’ll be asking the question “what factors contribute to the success of an open source hardware project?”, and using Arduino and derivatives LilyPad Arduino and the concurrency.cc board as the basis for the discussion.

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There will be presentations on:

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- Current Cost Bridge – an Arduino based, hackable consumer device

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The Current Cost Bridge was developed using the open-source Arduino platform. The reason for using Arduino, was to speed up the development process of the bridge, allowing for fast prototyping and producing a hackable device.

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http://www.currentcost.com/product-bridge.html

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- Concurrency.cc – parallel programming for makers and artists

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The concurrency.cc project describes itself as “a group of educators and researchers exploring the development of tools that make parallel programming more accessible to more people. Our hope is that concurrency.cc will serve the community of developers surrounding parallel and concurrent languages on the Arduino and other low-cost embedded platforms.”

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http://concurrency.cc/

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- LilyPad – an Arduino based platform for wearables and e-textiles

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The LilyPad Arduino is a microcontroller, plus a set of sewable electronic components designed so they can be put together to create interactive wearables or textiles based artworks. There is quite a range of components such as LEDS, sensors, buzzer, accelerometer and more that can be connected with conductive thread. The board is based on the ATmega168V/328Vand was designed and  developed by Leah Buechley and SparkFun Electronics.

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http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/LilyPad/index.html

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To register:

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http://oshugsuccess.eventbrite.com/

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For more info and for video from previous events:

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http://oshug.org