Amazon Just Made it Easier to Use AWS for Your Next IoT Project
Amazon Web Services rolled out a new system today designed to simplify connecting embedded development boards to the cloud.
Internet of Things
Microsoft Partners with Adafruit for IoT Starter Kits
Microsoft and Adafruit announced the release of a starter kit that will help get users started with Windows 10 IoT Core and Raspberry Pi 2.
Control an Arduino with Your Smartphone via Blynk
Blynk is a new platform that allows you to build interfaces for controlling and monitoring your projects from your iOS and Android device.
IFTTT Adds a Channel for Makers
The new Maker Channel recently added by IFTTT means the services is suddenly accessible, and useable, from the Arduino and Raspberry Pi.
Your Next Hardware Project Might Be Biological, and Other News from the Solid Conference
O’Reilly Media held itsย annual Solid conference this week in San Francisco. It’s an annual showย covering “Hardware, Software & the Internet of Things.” We found it eye-opening, informative, and occasionally controversial.ย Here’s some of what we heardย at this year’s show: Synthetic Biology Joichi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, explained that code is now being […]
GrowBox IoTs Your Plants From Seed to Fruit in One App Flat
After winning first place at the Intel-Cornell Cup last month, the GrowBox team have hit the road and are now exhibiting at the first annual National Maker Faire in Washington, D.C. Powered by the Intel Edison, custom PCBs, and a smartphone app, this self-contained “in-home plant growing system” allows you to monitor and control the […]
Use Photon to Make a Mysterious Interactive Magic Rope Box
Theย Magic Ropeย project, which utilizes a Photon, was inspired by Leena Ventรค-Olkkonen, Tobi Stockinger, Claudia Zuniga, and Graham Dean, who showed how a public installation could be made that wouldย allow large maps of the world to be positioned in various public spaces in a city. These maps would have short lengths of rope sticking out of […]
