This looks crazy. Its an app for your phone that lets you directly control the pins of the chip. It lets you debug or you can use it as a basis for your app.
http On Wed, September 16, 2015 2:08 pm, Greg London wrote: > Hm. Just found particle.io > It says it uses the same hardware as imp > But it uses the same software as arduino. > It also has an option for sending data via cell phone? > Somehow? > > > So all your arduino code should just work. > > > > > On Wed, September 16, 2015 1:31 pm, Greg London 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
