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WunderBar - IoT starter kit

Wednesday, January 07 2015 @ 13:41 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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WunderBar is a starter kit for IoT. The price is USD 200.- but you get everything you need to start developing IoT enabled applications and quite a few sensors.

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IOduino

Sunday, December 28 2014 @ 15:01 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 388

IOduino is a firmware for the Arduino which enables it's pins to be controlled remotely (over serial RS232). Analog/digital reads and writes are all possible. It comes bundled with a C++ library (IOduino.h) and a Python library (ioduino.py) which allows easy control from a computer running Linux. Interesting.

Arduino - optiboot

Sunday, December 28 2014 @ 13:10 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 402

If you work with Arduino, optiboot might be of interest. It is compatible with 168 and 328 Arduinos including Lilypad, Pro, Nano. OptiLoader looks like a nice way to put optiboot on a bunch of Arduino's quickly. Or Nick Gammon's Atmega bootloader programmer,

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Firmata and microcontroller communication

Sunday, December 28 2014 @ 12:52 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 395

Firmata (wiki - unmaintained) is a protocol for communicating with microcontrollers from software on a computer (or smartphone/tablet, etc). The protocol can be implemented in firmware on any microcontroller architecture as well as software on any computer software package (see list of client libraries below). Implementations for Arduino and Spark exists.

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Home automation - MySensors

Monday, December 15 2014 @ 21:43 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 3,926

From the MySensors web site: "We've combined the Arduino platform with a small radio transceiver into a fun, flexible world of low cost wireless sensors.". That sounds really cool for home automation.

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Node-RED

Thursday, December 11 2014 @ 22:55 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 582

Node-RED is a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.

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about collectd

Sunday, November 23 2014 @ 18:18 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 452

collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files.

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FreeBSD 10.1 released

Saturday, November 15 2014 @ 21:55 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 599

FreeBSD 10.1 is a incremental update to the 10.x series and mostly focuses on minor updates, bug fixes and performance improvements. release announcement, release notes and installation instructions.

First seen on OSnews.

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Internet Arcade

Monday, November 10 2014 @ 09:48 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 450

Internet Arcade from Internet Archive (of Wayback Machine fame) lets you play a lot of classic Arcade games in your browser. Currently there are over 1000 games there.

Fuzix

Tuesday, November 04 2014 @ 12:44 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 494

From the announcement: "The goal of Fuzix is to provide a reasonably complete Systen 5 Unix experience without all the bloat. At this point in time the kernel needs about 40K, plus memory for user space." Github repository: FUZIX, announcement (Google+).

First seen on OSnews.