Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, is far and away the largest in the Solar System. So much so, in fact, that the mass of the giant planet is actually two and a half times that of every other planet in the Solar System combined. No need to feel small, however, because NASA’s solar-powered…
A JavaScript microcontroller you can program wirelessly – perfect for IoT devices! No software needed so get started in seconds. Bluetooth Smart (or Bluetooth Low Energy) is an amazing technology – it’s now built into virtually all Phones and Computers, and Bluetooth Smart devices have a battery life of years. Most manufacturers conveniently gloss over…
The Fishino version of the powerful and popular board, Arduino MEGA: a revised hardware with a different power section. Not so much time has passed, since we presented our Fishino UNO, a board that is compatible with Arduino UNO and that is provided with interesting additional peripherals on board, among which a WiFi…
The easiest way to describe the Genuino 101 is that “it’s a bit like the Raspberry Pi“. Except that it isn’t. Where the Pi is a tiny, cheap, programmable computer able to run a full operating system, the Arduino is more like a programmable co-processor, for creating low power devices that react to their environment….
The Raspberry Pi 3 is not hurting for operating system choices. The tiny ARM computer is supported by several Linux distributions and even has a version of Windows 10 IoT core available. Now, it looks like the Pi is about to get official support for one of the most popular operating systems out there: Android. In…
BeagleBone Green Wireless (BBGW) is a joint effort by BeagleBoard.org and Seeed Studio. Based on the open-source hardware design of BeagleBone Black as well as a similar Sitara AM335x processor, the newest BBGW has two Grove connectors which have been continued from the original BeagleBone Green, making it easier to connect to the large family…
Thanks to the Fishino board, we will make an existing fish tank smart, and we will place it in the IoT world. By now, technology has made way in our daily life as well, and the home automation becomes every day more familiar: it is easy to think, for example, to a heating…
Interesting interview reported by Opensource.com on the similarities between IoT and a CMS (open source) like Drupal. The architecture designed for both has many points in common. Meet Amber Matz, a Production Manager and Trainer at Drupalize.Me, a service of Lullabot Education. When she’s not tinkering around with Arduinos, Raspberry Pis, and electronic wearables, you…
It supplies Arduino with the WiFi connectivity and the external memory support on a SD-Card; it is based on a new module that is completely programmable, and offers the best value for money, with a very limited energy consumption that make it ideal for battery applications. It is not the first time that…
Arthur Taylor, chief technology officer at Advanced Telematic Systems, presented an open-source platform that he hopes will be the start of more innovation in software development for mobility technologies. But he also argued for the merits of open source software in a space pretty much dominated by the closed-off products of large corporates, such as…
In this last post of the LoRa series we will see how to use the board, so to create a network composed of addressable and safe nodes. Semtech’s SX1278 integrated circuit, on which this shield is based, allows for a sophisticated and efficient communication in the LoRa (Long Range transmission) technology. This communication is…
In a previous post, you had the opportunity to discover a new Shield for Arduino, based on Semtech’s SX1278 chip that, in view of a very limited price, allows the implementation of a radio communication for a wide range of applications: from the transmission of digital signals in OOK or FSK mode, to the…
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