Hey Jan, What you're doing with janOS is great, and it's great to see some experimentation with IoT. I love hacking on hardware, so I'd like to see us do *something* with FxOS and hardware.
+1 to what Gabriele said though. I'm curious about what the advantages are of building your own dev board instead of porting and fully supporting the RPi. I would aso love to see us support WebUSB[1] so we can talk to arduinos from FxOS devices easily. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674718 Best, Kevin On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Gabriele Svelto <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13/02/2015 12:29, Jan Jongboom wrote: > > - Do you think Firefox OS has the potential to be a viable IoT platform? > > I think that making web technologies available in the usually deeply > embedded IoT platforms would definitely go hand in hand with Mozilla's > mission. While FxOS might currently be lacking some functionality (GPIO, > more sensor access, etc...) to be viable in that market I don't think it > would be hard to add it. Designing the APIs so that they would be > generally viable on the web might be more challenging though. > > > Unlike the experiments we ran so far, we don't want to re-use phone > hardware to make IoT dev boards, but work with a chipset maker to build an > actual IoT dev board, with GPIO pins, but also with a phone featureset, > which would make it a good competitor to Arduino/RPi/etc. > > I'd rather work on making FxOS run on existing ones rather than > considering to design a new one. There's been work on making FxOS work > on the Raspberry Pi [1] but we're not completely there yet. Completing > the port would give us access to a cheap, easily available board and I > think it would also be easier than starting from scratch. > > Gabriele > > [1] (fxos-rpi) [meta] FxOS on RaspberryPi (RPi) > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1001404 > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > >
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