Micro Controllers

Intro

so the micro controller is a item that is basicly a computer, this uses the "Custom ROM via crafting" suggestion
to program the controller you have to wire a custom rom to a disk and combine the disk in your crafting window with the controller
the disk will be "inserted" into the micro controller, when crafted agian you get the disk back with an empty controller

But.. How is this usefull?

once you got your programmed micro-controller you can combine it with certain items or place it in a rack/stand
by placing it in a rack it will act like a computer without interface, this might be usefull for things like redstone gates or servers
a micro controller will always be on, when the main function crashes it will just restart. so make sure you programmed it correctly

secondly is the combining with items, now this is not the most thought out part but bare with me here

so say there were google glass like glasses, then you would combine it with your micro controller in your crafting window to make it run.
of course in this instance the term api will ofcourse be active agian. but also it would have an API to read things like the players
health and hunger.and maybe other stats.

or put your micro controller in a carrot, let a pig eat it and track him and his stats. of course you could then relay the info back to a
central server to see how all your pigs are doing

i am sure you can come up with many more much better examples for what this could be usefull for, but please do leave any constructive critisism you have :)/>
-Wilco

I actually likr the idea

I especially like the idea to give it to animals

this is extremely similar to an idea I had for raspberry pi in CC, this would be amazing, but you should be able to just insert it into any block an have an item to view them, like the thaumcraft goggles for aura nodes

Sounds to me like you want to copy the EEPROM and micro controller from Open Computers.