Thanks, looks like purchasing one or two will not be an imp-ulse buy. I'm dubious as to the 1km range - maybe in the desert using battery power, 10F decap, 1bit/s and directional antennae. Certainly not at 400mA anyway. 100m is plausible and would seem to imply no corners were cut in the RF section due to its size.
I'm sure more interrogation will follow :-) Alex On Tuesday, November 5, 2013 2:32:18 AM UTC, Zandr Milewski wrote: > > The development environment is so delightful as to be surreal... There > is a web IDE, clicking "Build and Run" is all that's necessary to push > new code to the Imp and start it. No cables, no ISP or JTAG, just wifi. :) > > The imp is programmed in Squirrel <http://squirrel-lang.org/>, which > shares a lot of design goals with Lua, but is a bit more C-like. > > You configure the WiFi credentials using something called "BlinkUp". > Think Timex DataLink... You enter your credentials on a smartphone or > tablet, and then it "blinks" the parameters to the imp by flashing the > screen. Once that's done, everything else happens from the web. > > As far as range, I think the Imp guys have seen 1km from a good access > point over open ground. I've gone for a walk with a battery powered Imp > and was at least 100m from my house before it lost connectivity. > > > On 11/4/13, 18:22 , AlexTsekenis wrote: > > Great stuff Zandr - thanks for sharing. > > > > Can you tell us a bit about your experience of the development > > environment and wifi interface? > > What sort of wifi range have you achieved? > > > > Alex > > > > On Monday, November 4, 2013 7:13:21 PM UTC, Zandr Milewski wrote: > > > > On 11/4/13, 10:57 AM, Zandr Milewski wrote: > > > Here you go, guys. > > > > > > I converted my Peter Jensen IN-14 clock (tubeclock.com > > <http://tubeclock.com>) from a PIC to an > > > Electric Imp. > > > > Here are a couple of photos, one showing the daughtercard, one > showing > > the finished product. > > > > http://imgur.com/a/YxkoT > > > > -Z > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "neonixie-l" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send an email to > > [email protected]<javascript:>. > > > To view this discussion on the web, visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/e28913d3-1bb9-4f8f-bf61-8f4dcb6aec30%40googlegroups.com. > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/a54b0e68-0fd9-458e-955f-ff4521610d66%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
