Federico: the only Arduino "support" that I see is a help page for converting your arduino code to imp.
Apparently imp is programmed in squirrel. I would have to learn squirrel to use imp. Jon: you have to use their cloud to get access to the device. As a hardware guy who doesnt know internet security, I dont know if that is a problem or not. If its just a local device, I could just physically connect with it and bypass the cloud (i think it has some i2c interfaces so i assume i could get the device to dump data through i2c. But if I want to monitor something from my smart phone, there is no way I could write secure code for that. Whether or not THEY write secure code is a valid question I dont have the answer to. Is there anything out there this small, this cheap, this low power, that would be a viable alternative for making an internet-of-things device? Greg On Wed, September 16, 2015 12:30 pm, Jon Evans wrote: > The "gotcha" is that they take care of your data connection. Last I > looked, there was no way to get it to work without their hosted services. > It may be possible to hack it / reverse-engineer it, but that sounds like > a waste of time. I guess if you are OK with trusting them with handing > the networking / cloud storage part, it's not actually a gotcha. But I > wouldn't use it, because I would want to be able to make it connect to a > backend that I wrote, running in my house, not in their cloud. > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Greg London <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> >> Anyone have any experience with the electric imp? >> >> >> https://electricimp.com/platform/ >> >> >> >> A friend was telling me about it and it sounds pretty great. >> A microcontroller in an sd card package. Built in wifi. >> They take care of the data connection so you can focus >> On your application. >> >> >> And the base model is only $20 ??? >> >> >> Is there a gotcha to this I dont see? >> >> >> >> Greg >> -- >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Hardwarehacking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking >> >> > -- _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
