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?
Roughly an infinite number of them, yes. Features and price vary, but at the $20-ish price point I have seen offerings from half a dozen professional-grade vendors and enough startups that I'm starting to get twitchy when I see a new one. Search Digikey for wifi module and read some datasheets, you'll find one that does FOO. *Drew Van ZandtArtisan's Asylum Board of DirectorsFirefly Arts Collective Board of Directors* On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Greg London <[email protected]> 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 > >> > >> > > > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > Hardwarehacking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking >
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