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 Snap, smile and click! Atmel has kicked off its long-awaited Tech on Tour (ToT) selfie sweepstakes.

So if you are attending one of our ToT events, or happen to see us stopping to refuel, be sure to come on over and take a selfie with the Atmel crew and our tech-packed mobile trailer. Don’t be camera shy, because you could win a brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab 3!

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As we’ve previously discussed on Bits & Pieces, our tricked-out ToT mobile trailer allows visitors to interact with a wide range of next-gen Atmel tech, including AVR and ARM based microcontrollers, automotive and crypto solutions,microprocessors, Internet Of Things (IoT) products, wearable devices, 3D printers, touch sensors and XSense.   If you don’t see a stop near you and think your city would enjoy Atmel’s traveling show, be sure to request one and we’ll see what we can do.

This weekend, Atmel’s ToT will be at SXSW in Austin, Texas. We’re based at the Hyatt Regency Austin from March 7-9, 2014, so be sure to stop by during the show to see our latest demos.

More specifically, you can check out:

Agent smartwatch (Secret Labs) powered by Atmel’s ARM-based SAM4S and tinyAVR MCU
Philips Hue Bulbs with Atmel‘s ZigBee and Lightweight Mesh Stack
Turtle Beach i60 Wireless Gaming Headset with Atmel Wi-Fi
Direct Roku3 remote with Atmel Wi-Fi Direct
MakerBot 3D Printer with Atmel AVR Microcontrollers
ASUS T100 Transformer with Atmel’s MaxTouch T Series Cap Touch controller and XSense Metal mesh touch sensors

In addition, we’re proud to host a guest appearance by Autodesk, the very same folks behind the world famous Instructables and 123D Circuits.

Interested in learning more about Atmel’s tech on tour? You can check out our official ToT page here.

Atmel-based Arduino boards are prominently featured in a number of holiday 2013 top 10 gift lists from various publications, including the New York Times and Engadget.

As Wikipedia explains, Arduino is a single-board microcontroller designed to make the use of electronics in multidisciplinary projects (and prototyping) more accessible. The hardware consists of an open-source board designed around an 8-bit Atmel AVR microcontroller, or a 32-bit Atmel ARM. The software comprises a standard programming language compiler and a bootloader that executes on the microcontroller.

In addition to the wildly popular Arduino, Atmel’s MCUs are used to power a wide range of industrial and consumer products on the market. So let’s take a look at some of our favorite items which made Atmel’s Stocking Stuffers list this holiday season:

Google’s touch-based Chromebook Pixel

Asus Windows 8 Transformer Book T100