Arduino

Arduino vs. Phidgets – Dev Time Trials

Is Arduino easy enough? Or would some other platform be more suitable? Arduino vs. Phidgets – Dev Time Trials article looks at the situation. Is developing on an Arduino too slow? Are Phidgets too expensive? When might you use one or the other? Article breaks down what he learned from three experimental time trials.  

Audio data transfer for AVR

I wrote some days ago about Tagsu – The Digital Wondertag. The inventor of that device pointed me to look at some more material on the device: 12kbps simple audio data transfer for AVR blog post is abou adventures in implementing a stupidly simple way of transferring data over audio to AVR (and why not

Cloudwash – Creating the Technical Prototype

How to build a IoT device? Cloudwash – Creating the Technical Prototype is an interesting project description how to design and build a connected washing machine. Cloudwash developers understood that to understand and design for this type of device, the designers need to have a working technical prototype that allows experimenting and getting experience. So

Arduino and Windows 8.1

I was testing Arduino with new laptop running Windows 8.1. So I hope I could easily get the boards detected by the OS and get the IDE installed without too much problems. I had earlier read reports on new Windows 8 security things making Arduino driver installing hard. There are even video on solving installation

Intel Edison IoT board

Intel has been active in Internet of Things product releases. As part of  IDF 2014 keynote, Intel has announced that their Edison development platform is now shipping. First announced back at CES, Edison is a development platform for Intel’s burgeoning Internet of Things development initiative. Intel is upping their bid for a place at the