I briefly played with a spark core (now renamed particle core, apparently superseded by particle photon). It was neat. Unlike the electric imp, it's mostly open source: http://spark.github.io/ so if you don't want to use their cloud services, at least you can in theory change it to use something you create.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Greg London <[email protected]> wrote: > > This looks crazy. Its an app for your phone that lets you directly control > the pins of the chip. It lets you debug or you can use it as a basis for > your app. > > > http > > On Wed, September 16, 2015 2:08 pm, Greg London wrote: > > Hm. Just found particle.io > > It says it uses the same hardware as imp > > But it uses the same software as arduino. > > It also has an option for sending data via cell phone? > > Somehow? > > > > > > So all your arduino code should just work. > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, September 16, 2015 1:31 pm, Greg London wrote: > > > >> 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 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > >
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