10 Chore-Busting Projects to Build Before Labor Day Weekend
This Labor Day build a project to help automate your daily life. Don’t think about chores, just kick back and focus on what really matters.
Connected Home
It’s no secret that technology is steadily advancing at a rapid pace, making having access to updated information an essential part of staying on top of trends. To help you stay informed, we’re sharing these blogs highlighting the amazing innovation taking place in the realm of connected home devices and IoT news! Our goal: to provide makers like yourself with relevant product releases, industry thinking, tips & tricks related to working on meaningful projects in these spaces – all accompanied by actionable advice along the way. Join us as we explore topics such as building smart homes powered by artificial intelligence-driven tech or transitioning analog operations into multi-device networks that allow data access anytime and anywhere.
Estimote Fixes Security Problems with Beacon Firmware
With their latest firmware release Estimote has closed the security problem that made their beacons vulnerable to hijacking. But some questions surrounding their SDK remain.
The Internet of Things: Turning Blue(tooth) at the Edges?
What will the Internet of Things look like in another three years, or in 10 years?
Which Board is Right for Me?
Picking a brain for your project.
CES Offers a Glimpse of the Future Connected Home
At this year’s CES, I saw a future where having a network of connected devices in the home will be as normal as having an email address.
Bright Idea: Using Raspberry Pi as a Lamp Timer
The following is an excerpt from Getting Started with Raspberry Pi by Matt Richardson and Shawn Wallace. Let’s say you’re leaving for a long vacation early tomorrow morning and you want to ward off would-be burglars from your home. A lamp timer is a good deterrent, but hardware stores are closed for the night and you […]
The Emergence of the Connected City
If the modern city is a symbol for randomness — even chaos — the city of the near future is shaping up along opposite metaphorical lines. The urban environment is evolving rapidly, and amodel is emerging that is more efficient, more functional, more — connected, in a word. This will affect how we work, commute, and […]
