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The Thing System aims to Revolutionize Home Automation

The Thing System aims to Revolutionize Home Automation

The Thing System seeks to not only obey your commands, but communicate amongst its own devices.

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Talking to Jason Kridner About the new Arduino Tre

Talking to Jason Kridner About the new Arduino Tre

With information about the new Arduino Tre board scare on the ground, I managed to track down Jason Kridner from the BeagleBoard Foundation to talk about the new board.

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The Road to the I/O Sensor Network

The Road to the I/O Sensor Network

The long tale of the slippery path taking Alasdair Allan, Kipp Bradford, Julie Steele and Rob Faludi to Google I/O to build a distributed sensor network that turned into the talk of the conference.

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Networking 400 Balloons with XBees

Networking 400 Balloons with XBees

Rob Faludi, author of Building Wireless Sensor Networks, is helping to light up the sky with XBees: This week I’m heading to Newcastle upon Tyne in the U.K. for Connecting Light, 400 giant illuminated balloons that will cross England coast to coast along Hadrian’s Wall, a 2000-year-old Roman barrier. This will be my first exposure […]

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XBee-enabled SumoBots Appearing at Maker Faire

XBee-enabled SumoBots Appearing at Maker Faire

Rob Faludi, author of Building Wireless Sensor Networks, is bringing some very cool bots to Digi’s Maker Faire Bay Area Booth: Say hello to Troy and Abed! They’re Digi International’s brand-new XBee-enabled SumoBots and they’re ready to begin training for their debut at Bay Area Maker Faire 2012. They’ll be battling it out in the […]

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WineShade: Hipster Stack-Powered Voting Gizmo for O’Reilly’s Strata Conference

WineShade: Hipster Stack-Powered Voting Gizmo for O’Reilly’s Strata Conference

I was asked to make something for the O’Reilly Strata Conference, which was held in Santa Clara at the end of February 2012. We needed some devices to capture votes from attendees who participated in Coco Krumme‘s Data Crush: Where Wine and Data Meet: This new event at Strata will host wine tastings for participants, […]

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The Largest Collection of XBee Projects on the Web

The Largest Collection of XBee Projects on the Web

When I opened up Digi’s new Tumblr, I was delighted to see a couple of my projects on the front page. The maker of XBee radios is now curating the Largest Collection of XBee Projects on the Web.

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