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GFX Forever: The Complete Guide to GFX for IoT

by honey the codewitch

GFX is a fast and full featured replacement for standard IoT drawing libraries that is optimized to reduce bus I/O

Lightning Never Strikes Twice? Maybe Blitzortung knows!

by DaveAuld

Building for and consuming the Blitzortung Lightning Detection Network

Never Buy A Garage Door Remote Again: Open Your Door With Your Android Phone (via Bluetooth)

by raddevus

Steps for building a device you can add to your existing garage door, which implements an atmega328, bluetooth (hc-05) and relay module which will allow you to open your garage door from any paired Android device.

A PWM Based Fan Controller for Arduino

by honey the codewitch

Control 3 or 4 pin PWM fans using this library

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htcw_json: A tiny streaming JSON parser

by honey the codewitch

Stream JSON efficiently on little devices with minimal flash and memory usage

Tetris Wall Art for Arduino

by honey the codewitch

Display automated (optionally controllable) Tetris on an LCD or Neopixel panel

Getting Crafty With Graphics With Just Kilobytes of Flash and Almost No RAM

by honey the codewitch

Got an embedded or IoT widget with a screen but no real memory or flash space to speak of? Read this.

IoT Data Hub for Remote Edge Deployment

by deangi

IoT data edge hub is designed for remote low power unattended applications. IoT devices can post data to the Hub which will store the data and make it available for later download to core servers. Design is based on a low cost ESP32 platform with an attached SD card.

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GFX Forever: The Complete Guide to GFX for IoT

8 Mar 2022 by honey the codewitch

GFX is a fast and full featured replacement for standard IoT drawing libraries that is optimized to reduce bus I/O

Lightning Never Strikes Twice? Maybe Blitzortung knows!

27 Aug 2015 by DaveAuld

Building for and consuming the Blitzortung Lightning Detection Network

Never Buy A Garage Door Remote Again: Open Your Door With Your Android Phone (via Bluetooth)

27 Jul 2016 by raddevus

Steps for building a device you can add to your existing garage door, which implements an atmega328, bluetooth (hc-05) and relay module which will allow you to open your garage door from any paired Android device.

A PWM Based Fan Controller for Arduino

6 Jan 2023 by honey the codewitch

Control 3 or 4 pin PWM fans using this library

Stage 4: Smart Object Over IoT-Programming RFID

7 Dec 2014 by Grasshopper.iics

A tutorial on How to Read RFID Tags and A Security System DIY Project

YouCar-Intel Edison Multi Modality Live Youtube Streaming Smart Car

5 Aug 2016 by Grasshopper.iics

Live Streaming Multi Modality Controlled Intel Edison Smart RC Car

Wearable Foot Gesture Based Text Entry System for People with Upper Body Disabillity

7 Aug 2016 by Grasshopper.iics, Moumita Das

An assistive technology initiative for patients with upper body disability

Using the New ESP32 LCD Panel API With htcw_gfx and htcw_uix

20 Mar 2023 by honey the codewitch

Combine some great technologies for rich, responsive IoT user interfaces on the ESP32

GarageWatcher - A Full-Stack IoT Project, from Hardware to App

2 Jun 2020 by g96b10

Musings, tips, and lessons learned from developing a physical device, serverless back-end, and Android app

Winduino: A Tool to Prototype Arduino Projects on the PC

30 Sep 2023 by honey the codewitch

Run and develop Arduino code, including a display, on PC using this Windows PC shim and emulator.

Installing Windows 10 IoT core on Raspberry Pi 2

13 Dec 2015 by Martin Gmuca

Quick guide and preview of process of installing Windows 10 IoT Core to Raspberry Pi 2

WoT with Arduino for Beginners: Part 2 - Connecting to the Real World via Sensors

18 Apr 2016 by Mircea Diaconescu, Gerd Wagner

Learn how to develop Arduino-based apps for the Web of Things (WoT). This second part of a series of tutorials shows how to read analog and digital sensors with the help of Arduino.

A Novice's Guide to the BeagleBone Platform and Software Development Using C++

8 Mar 2017 by Eric D Schmidt

A crash course in working with the BeagleBone and its built-in A/D converter, GPIO, and I2C bus using C++

Building React Web Apps on .NET Core

21 Mar 2017 by dsuryd

Simple, lightweight, yet powerful way to build real-time React + C# .NET web apps with dotNetify-React.

Tracking Objects with Pixy Visual Sensor on Raspberry Pi using Windows 10 IoT Core

26 May 2018 by Victor Dashevsky

Processing the positioning information of visual objects detected by Pixy camera and received on Raspberry Pi via I2C, and using common design patterns in a C# program parsing robotics sensor data

rxcg: A Simple Text Matcher C Code Generator for IoT

15 Nov 2023 by honey the codewitch

Generate tight C code to match text based on regular expressions

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An Industrial IoT framework with Samsung Artik 10 and Temboo: Water Resource Management Case Study

4 Aug 2016 by Abhishek Nandy

Introducing powerful industrial Temboo Choreos to scale industrial IoT framework and ecosystem

A Sonos Speaker System Remote for the TTGO T-Display v1

13 Dec 2022 by honey the codewitch

Control the sound from your Sonos system in each room of your house

TTGO Fan Take 2

10 Jan 2023 by honey the codewitch

A far more functional fan controller than before, and some powerful programming techniques

An Internet Enabled Analog Clock for IoT (ESP32)

11 Jun 2022 by honey the codewitch

Create a simple synchronized analog clock using GFX, and a bit of code

Stateful Screen Rendering on Little Devices

26 Feb 2023 by honey the codewitch

How to make very responsive, flicker free interactive screens without using a lot of memory

IoT Services - Introduction to Buddy Platform

23 Nov 2014 by Guruprasad.K.Basavaraju

IoT Services: Buddy platform introduction

iotduino takes JavaScript to the land of microseconds

10 Dec 2014 by Mircea Diaconescu, Gerd Wagner

In this article, we describe how to develop IoT apps with Node/JavaScript for the Arduino-compatible PCDuino. We take JavaScript to the land of microseconds where a digitalWrite operation takes 6-7 microseconds and a digitalRead operation takes 4-5 microseconds.

IoT Starter Raspberry Pi Lirc

15 Feb 2018 by Jose Motta

IoT.Starter.Pi.Thing powered by Linux Infrared Remote Control

Connecting an Arduino to a Breadboard to light up LEDs using Tinkercad

5 Jun 2018 by Ryan Peden

This article will guide you through creating a simulated Arduino project connected to a breadboard using Tinkercad

New Features and Enhancements in .NET Core 3.0

25 Sep 2019 by Shameel

.NET Core 3.0, with a significant number of changes and improvements, was released on 23rd September 2019. The most important changes are discussed in this article. The post New Features and Enhancements in .NET Core 3.0 appeared first on The Developer Space.

Parallel Heterogeneous Programming In C++17/2x0 Using CL/SYCL-Model Specification On Raspberry Pi 4B+ IoT-Boards

10 Dec 2020 by Arthur V. Ratz

A practical guide for building parallel CL/SYCL-code in, C++17, targeting Arm/AArch64-architectures and running it on Raspberry Pi 4B+ IoT-boards

Cajoling std::chrono Operations to Link On the Teensy platform

24 Aug 2022 by honey the codewitch

std::chrono doesn't work on the Teensy? Oh no! Here's how to fix it.

A TTGO Display T1 Based Fan Widget

9 Jan 2023 by honey the codewitch

A project that allows you to use a knob to control a fan's RPM with feedback

SFX: Making Noise with a New Audio and MIDI Library for IoT

25 Jul 2022 by honey the codewitch

Make your little devices sing

An IoT Smart Clock Using an ESP32 Development Board

22 Nov 2020 by honey the codewitch

Revisiting our WiFi enabled smart clock project with more modern hardware

Using the Audio Jack as Data Interface on Android Systems

1 May 2015 by Intel

As one of the interfaces on mobile devices and tablets, the key function of the audio jack is to play music. However, its other usage cannot be ignored—the audio jack can also be used to transmit data.

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Using the Intel® Edison platform to make a video rover car

8 Oct 2015 by Intel

In this article, we’ll show you how to build a video rover car using the Intel® Edison platform.

Cool Head: Intel Edison Smart Helmet with Climate Control, Automatic Indication and Accident Notification

7 Aug 2016 by Grasshopper.iics, Abhishek Nandy

Novel Intel Edison smart helmet with portable air conditioner that can notify the relatives when a rider meets an accident, can automatically trigger the indicators based on head movement.

Color match game in Java

16 Nov 2016 by Intel

This color match game is part of a series of how-to Intel® Internet of Things (IoT) code sample exercises using the Intel® IoT Developer Kit, Intel® Edison development platform, cloud platforms, APIs, and other technologies.

Sending Events from Azure Event Hub to Azure SQL Database using Azure Functions

7 Feb 2017 by Jovan Popovic(MSFT)

Windows 10 IoT Core on Raspberry Pi (4.2019 Update)

19 Apr 2019 by Martin Gmuca

Where did Windows10 IoT move since 2016? What is new in the latest updates (4.2019)?

Spiffsgen: A Code Generation Based Workaround for Lack of ESP32 SPIFFS Uploader Tool

22 Nov 2020 by honey the codewitch

This is a very specialized tool that generates source code to upload files into SPIFFS on an ESP32

Efficient HTTP Chunked Transfer Encoding for IoT Devices

26 Nov 2020 by honey the codewitch

Efficiently send large amounts of data with a tiny amount of memory

Essential SD: Some Things You Should Know about Using an SD Reader with an Arduino Compatible Device

6 Dec 2020 by honey the codewitch

A rundown of some common tricks and pitfalls when working with SD readers for IoT gadgets

GFX Part 4: The ILI9341 Display Driver and JPEG Support

4 May 2021 by honey the codewitch

Use an ILI9341 display efficiently from an ESP32 without the Arduino framework. Load JPEGs.

Azure IoT Central Tester

17 Jan 2022 by Roman Kiss

Design and implementation of small tool, tester for Azure IoT Central

Industrial IoT based Machine Tool Condition Monitoring With GE Predix Time Series Ingestion And Data Streaming

22 May 2023 by Grasshopper.iics, Abhishek Nandy, Moumita Das

Industrial IoT time series data collection with GE Predix time series ingestion and data streaming

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Player: A Simple Cross Platform Audio Class for IoT

9 Apr 2023 by honey the codewitch

Mix wavs and waveforms with this simple to use library

A Fast, Flexible, And Scalable Path To Commercial IoT Solutions

25 Aug 2015 by Intel

A Fast, Flexible, And Scalable Path To Commercial IoT Solutions

DIY: Building a Dryer End-of-Cycle Notifier with the MediaTek LinkIt™ ONE

28 Aug 2015 by Carey Payette

This article will cover the development of a simple device that will text message the owner when the dryer cycle has ended.

Microsoft Band- Basic App for Understanding II

28 Feb 2016 by adityasahver

In this article, we will learn how to create an Tile/Page in the MS Band and trigger the details on the associated device

Using Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT with Intel® IoT Devices and Gateways

20 Jun 2016 by Intel

This article provides general guidelines for connecting any Intel® Internet of Things (IoT) devices (that is, devices that support Intel microcontrollers, such as the Intel® Edison board and the Intel® Curie™ Compute Module) and Intel gateways to the Amazon Web Servives (AWS) IoT platform.

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IoT Starter Core for Netduino Plus 2

5 Sep 2016 by Jose Motta

This article introduces an IoT Starter that may help accelerate Internet of Things initiatives.

Access control in Python

11 Apr 2017 by Intel

This access control system application is part of a series of how-to Intel® Internet of Things (IoT) code sample exercises using the Intel® IoT Developer Kit, Intel® Edison board, Intel® IoT Gateway, cloud platforms, APIs, and other technologies.

IoT Starter Raspberry Pi Lumi

18 Dec 2021 by Jose Motta

IoT.Starter.Pi.Thing growing into an embryo of a universal IR remote control

Azure Function as Output Job Topology of an Azure Stream Analytics Job

19 Dec 2018 by Sibeesh Passion

In this article, we are going to see how we can set up an Azure Function as an Output job topology of an Azure Stream Analytics job. Doesn’t that sound interesting?

Big JSON on the Arduino: Parse Huge Data on a Tiny Device

11 Dec 2020 by honey the codewitch

Streaming your data and parsing on the go with tiny gadgets

Fast Memory Allocation and Pooling for Constrained Environments

14 Dec 2020 by honey the codewitch

Some C++ magic to help cut down on heap abuse for simple scenarios

ESP32 Deep Dive: What Time Is It?

8 Mar 2021 by honey the codewitch

Traipsing through the ESP-IDF to add some sweet sweet real-time clock functionality

Developing for Azure Sphere, Part 1: Getting Started

31 Oct 2021 by Matt Scarpino

This article explains how to configure hardware and software to support development of Azure Sphere applications.

Developing Applications for Azure Sphere, Part 2: Building High-Level Applications

31 Oct 2021 by Matt Scarpino

This article explains how to build, program, and deploy high-level applications that run on the Azure Sphere OS.

IoT-VR with Unity, Intel Edison

20 May 2023 by Grasshopper.iics, Abhishek Nandy, Moumita Das

Virtual Reality with Unity, Intel Edison and MQTT

App Development on Windows IoT using VS 2019

28 Apr 2019 by Martin Gmuca

In this article, we will look at the process of app development, deploy and debug on Raspberry Pi 3 using VS2019.

Waspmote's IoT calling

11 Dec 2014 by Paolo Parise

Connecting IoT devices to an Azure web service using $3 WiFi modules

5 Mar 2015 by Tom Corbett Space Cadet

One of the biggest problems in making simple devices into IoT devices is cost. The ESP-8266 module solves that problem.

Blinking an LED with the Arduino IDE

11 Jun 2015 by Intel

This guide will teach you how to run a sample sketch on your Intel® IoT board using the Arduino IDE.

The Orthodromic Distance Between Two Geo-points

23 Jun 2015 by DrABELL

Computational algorithms pertinent to finding the great-circle distance between 2 points on Earth

Smart Baby Monitor with Intel® Edison and Ubidots

8 Oct 2015 by Intel

Smart Baby Monitor with Intel® Edison and Ubidots

Hands-On Intel® IoT Developer Kit Using Intel® XDK

8 Oct 2015 by Intel

This article covers and expands upon the material from the Hands-on Lab Intel® Internet of Things (IoT) Developer Kit SFTL005 presented at the Intel® Developer Forum 2015

How to read Binary Data from Serial Port without any Encoding?

27 Oct 2015 by Patrice T

Quote:I am expecting the result data of C# application like the result from Matlab and XCTU. I have tried with SerialPort encodings(ASCIIEncoding, Unicode, Latin). But nothing works. Help me. this is my code,The trick is simple, you receive binary data from serial port, don't convert it.Your...

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Developing with Node-RED

17 May 2016 by Intel

Node-RED is a powerful browser-based tool for building apps for the Internet of Things (IoT) whose visual programming environment makes it easy to develop apps as flows.

Capture and Plot Accelerometer Data

11 Apr 2017 by Intel

Data from the Terasic DE10-Nano's built-in 3-axis accelerometer is measured on ALL 3 axes to show when the board is in motion. The raw output of the accelerometer is converted to g-force values by a sensor library and then sent to graphing software for data visualization and interpretation.

Fire alarm in C++

23 Jun 2017 by Intel

This smart fire alarm application is part of a series of how-to Internet of Things (IoT) code sample exercises using the Intel® IoT Developer Kit, Intel® Edison board, Intel® IoT Gateway, cloud platforms, APIs, and other technologies.

The Selfie Robot: An Integrated Cloud Powered Framework

17 Aug 2017 by Intel

Two of our interns in the DPI Community Evangelism group, Isabel Zhang and Milly Xun, have created an interesting IoT/Robotics project over the past two months.

Step by Step Performance Optimization with Intel® C++ Compiler

15 Dec 2017 by Intel

Step by Step Performance Optimization with Intel® C++ Compiler

Let's IoT Hub: Tutorial 2

3 Aug 2018 by g96b10

Create a console application that listens to the data your Raspberry Pi 3 uploads to Azure IoT Hub

Azure IoT - Good Security Practice

12 Oct 2018 by DataBytzAI

A quick run through important points for IoT security

WiFi thermometer using NodeMCU, DHT22 and Flask

13 Feb 2019 by Philipp_Engelmann

With IoT (Internet of Things) on the rise and hardware getting cheaper and cheaper, it's a great time to explore the possibilities this new technology provides.

GFX In Depth: Part 2 - E-Paper Displays

18 Jun 2021 by honey the codewitch

Use GFX effectively with e-paper/e-ink displays

Blockchain and the Hyperledger Sawtooth Implementation

26 Apr 2018 by Intel

IoT Developer Show

Setting Up a New VisionFive 2 RISC-V SBC

27 Nov 2023 by Richard Chambers

The VisionFive 2 RISC-V SBC is an alternative to the Raspberry Pi 4, however its software has some rough edges. I decided to write about my experience working with a series of Raspberry Pi 3 hobby experiments using the VisionFive.

Getting Crafty With Graphics With Just Kilobytes of Flash and Almost No RAM

24 Feb 2024 by honey the codewitch

Got an embedded or IoT widget with a screen but no real memory or flash space to speak of? Read this.

(Stage 2 ) Getting started with Spark Core

10 Nov 2014 by Prilvesh K

Getting started with Spark Core,setup a guide for everyone new.

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Getting Started ‒ Installing Intel® IoT Developer Kit on Linux*

10 Dec 2014 by matthias-hahn

The Intel® Internet of Things (IoT) Developer Kit (dev kit) is a complete solution for creating and testing applications targeted for Intel® IoT platforms like the Intel® Galileo board.

Intel® IoT Developer Kit Cloud-based Analytics

19 Feb 2015 by REX ST JOHN

Accessing and Using IoT Analytic

Install Eclipse IDE on Intel IoT Platforms

8 May 2015 by Intel

This guide explains how to install the Eclipse IDE on Windows, OS X, or Linux.

Building and running Mosquitto MQTT on Intel Edison

8 May 2015 by Intel

In this series of blogs, I will explore the various ways that the Linux capability can be integrated into an Arduino sketch, and how to leverage existing code, to make IoT development much simpler.

Play audio from your Intel® Edison via Bluetooth using Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP)

8 May 2015 by Intel

Play audio from your Intel® Edison via Bluetooth using Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP)

Using Edison: Securely connect IoT Sensor to the Internet with MQTT

21 May 2015 by Intel

In previous blog posts, we’ve built the Mosquitto MQTT broker on Edison and created a sensor node for sensing motion, temperature, and light level. Here, we will connect those sensors and actuators to the Mosquitto MQTT server we’ve built to turn those sensors into true IoT sensors.

Grove Starter Kit with Intel Galileo Gen 2 – Getting Started

15 Jul 2015 by Intel

Let us see how easily we can get started with Internet of Things with Grove Starter Kit without worrying about electronic component and circuits.

Get Automatic Pictures from Device and Upload to Web Server

14 Aug 2015 by Emiliano Musso

How to create a Windows Phone app to take timed pictures from camera, and upload them on an Apache webserver to view them remotely

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Connecting the Intel® Edison board to your Android Phone with Serial Port Profile (SPP)

15 Sep 2015 by Intel

Connecting the Intel® Edison board to your Android Phone with Serial Port Profile (SPP)

Intel® Galileo: Getting Started – Ethernet

15 Sep 2015 by Intel

In this guide you’ll setup network access to your Intel® Galileo Board and obtain an IP address through ethernet.

How to run Yocto Linux OS in a virtual machine

18 Feb 2016 by Intel

In this article I'll show how to create a runnable image of Yocto and how to test it inside QEMU, a basic software emulator; and following how to run it inside an Hypervisor, like Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows.

Creating an app that rotates a servo motor

18 Apr 2016 by Intel

The example app in this guide rotates a servo motor connected to your Intel® Edison board when you turn the knob on a rotary angle sensor.

I2C Between Raspberry and Pic24

11 May 2016 by Member 11246861

RaspberryPi2 master transmits to and receives from Pic24FJ64GB002 slave through I2C

Using Microsoft Azure IoT Suite with Intel® IoT Devices and Gateways

20 Jun 2016 by Intel

This article provides general guidelines for connecting any Intel Internet of Things (IoT) devices (that is, devices that support Intel microcontrollers like the Intel® Edison board and the Intel® Curie™ Compute Module) and Intel® IoT Gateways to the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite.

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IoT Path-to-product: How To Build The Smart Home Prototype

19 Jul 2016 by Intel

The exercise described in this article demonstrates how to recreate the prototype from the path-to-product project.

Sensor To Cloud: Connecting The Intel® Nuc And Arduino 101 Board To The IBM Watson IoT Platform

19 Jul 2016 by Intel

This article demonstrates how to use an Intel® Next Unit Computing (NUC) device to connect sensors on an Arduino 101 board to the IBM Watson IoT Platform.

Getting Started With Node-RED And Arduino 101 With The Grove Shield

19 Jul 2016 by Intel

Getting Started With Node-RED And Arduino 101 With The Grove Shield

How-To Intel IoT Code Samples: Earthquake Detector

9 Sep 2016 by Intel

This earthquake detector application is part of a series of how-to Intel® Internet of Things (IoT) code sample exercises using the Intel® IoT Developer Kit, Intel® Edison development platform, cloud platforms, APIs, and other technologies.

Getting Started with Intel® IoT Gateways - Python

18 Nov 2016 by Intel

This article was written for Python. To get started using JavaScript, see Getting Started with Intel® IoT Gateways - Python

Creating a new IoT C/C++ project

18 Nov 2016 by Intel

This topic contains steps to create a new IoT project in the Intel® System Studio IoT Edition for the Intel® Edison board, Intel® Galileo board, or Minnowboard MAX board.

Programming Robotics using the Intel® XDK, Node.js, and MRAA library

21 Dec 2016 by Intel

This article describes another method of programming the robot using the Intel® XDK to program the robot over WiFi, Node.js, and the MRAA library.