You're kidding, right? This is some kind of belated, unfunny April Fools joke, right?<p>This is a specialty IoT device for "blockchain", something whose only hardware requirements is some kind of on-board crypto device... and it doesn't even have one. "Elk doesn't have any form of hardware security and shouldn't at any point in time be used to hold significant amounts of (real) crypto assets."<p>Kickstarter should remove the project for being a scam.
Looks like an interesting software project, bringing powerful and cool libraries to the arduino ecosystem.<p>Too bad they chose the "let's make a redundant copy of the pi zero-w (or another 10k boards out there) without any actual application specific hardware" model of monetization.<p>This is really a software project, and the people doing it are looking to sell hardware to fund the development?
Upon reading the headline I had assumed this had something to do with the ELK embedded operating system, it doesn't. Maybe not a good idea to pick the same name as another product already in the embedded space?