The brains of the operation is an STM8S103F module, aka the Blue Pill, which is paired with a DS18B20 temperature sensor. [Tim]’s original coaster has one in a TO-92 package embedded in the top ...

When scientist Gregory Pincus first approached the pharmaceutical company G. D. Searle about funding ... Although the technology for the Pill already existed, Searle was not willing to pay ...

On October 29, 1959, the pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle filed an application ... Gregory Pincus about her hopes for a "magic pill," it appeared that success was imminent.

It can be a very powerful system. [jephthal] took the excellent Mecrisp Forth and put it on the very inexpensive STM32 “blue pill” board to create a development system that cost about $2.