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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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'enRoute': Real-time NY City Bus Tracking Web App

6 May 2015 by DrABELL

Web Application capable of NY MTA bus routes and stops monitoring in real-time/low-latency mode.

(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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A $5 Programmable Tiny Webserver The Size of a Jump Drive

4 Nov 2020 by honey the codewitch

Unleash the tiny ESP-01 on your network

A Closer Look at Object Detection, Recognition and Tracking

25 Jan 2018 by Intel

Below we seek guidance from the dictionary to appropriately define and discern the terms object detection, object recognition and object tracking.

A DIY Time Lapse Photography Camera

17 Jan 2024 by deangi

The inexpensive ESP32 platform is used to take periodic photos that can make a time-lapse video.

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

A glimpse about c-states and SoC Watch on Intel® Quark MCU D2000

16 Jan 2017 by Intel

Today, we will browse Power_Profiler this code example built-in within ISSM and review D2000 c-states.

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++

A PWM Based Fan Controller for Arduino

6 Jan 2023 by honey the codewitch

Control 3 or 4 pin PWM fans using this library

A Realistic Simulation Framework With IoT For Traffic Control Based On Pollution Level

7 Aug 2016 by Grasshopper.iics, Abhishek Nandy

High level IOT Co2 emission simulation.

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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

A Tale of Two Buttons: Building an IoT Button Library for Arduino

9 Dec 2022 by honey the codewitch

Building a button library seems simple until it isn't.

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

Accelerate Your IoT Development with the UPM Sensor Library

18 Aug 2017 by Intel

Configuring IoT solutions can be complex. We’re here to help turn your vision into market-ready products.

25 Oct 2017 by Intel

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

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.

Adding the Missing Real Time Clock to Windows IoT on Raspberry Pi

20 Jul 2016 by Joel Ivory Johnson

Windows IoT on Raspberry Pi doesn't yet have native support for a hardware real time clock. I've created a solution for getting Windows IoT to initialize its clock from RTC at bootup so that other solutions don't need to be modified to read from the RTC directly.

Air quality sensor in C++

23 Jun 2017 by Intel

This air quality monitor 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.

Alternatives to Using the Intel® XDK to Develop Node.js IoT Applications

15 Dec 2017 by Intel

This article provides a starting point for assembling a set of tools for developing Node.js applications on headless IoT Linux devices.

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

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

An Introduction to Developing on Intel® IoT Architecture

13 Nov 2015 by Intel

In this short article we hope we have brought light to the IoT development process so that you can properly place your efforts.

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

Analog Gauge Reader

15 Dec 2017 by Intel

This sample application takes an image or video frame of an analog gauge and reads the value using functions from the OpenCV* computer vision library.

Android Things Developer Preview Now Available on the Intel® Edison board

16 Jan 2017 by Intel

Intel delivered the first Brillo-compliant starter board, the Intel® Edison Kit for Arduino, which was featured in Google’s IoT Tech Awards, a global research grant spanning 83 projects selected to experiment with Google and partner IoT technologies.

Announcing 18 New How-To Intel IoT Code Samples

13 Nov 2015 by Intel

A complete list of these JavaScript code sample titles is provided below along with their links to instructions and code.

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Announcing Intel® IoT Developer Kit support for Intel IoT Gateways!

18 Mar 2016 by Intel

The path to app development will soon be easier than ever, with a faster migration to real-world commercial solutions.

Announcing Ubuntu and Wind River Pulsar support with Intel® IoT Developer Kit 5.0

19 Dec 2016 by Intel

We are very excited to announce the release of Intel® IoT Developer Kit 5.0!

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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.

Arduino 101 Bluetooth Low Energy

16 Nov 2016 by Intel

In this article we will discuss how to create a BLEservice and communicate with an Android device.

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Arduino WiFi-Connected Weather Station with Android User Interface

4 Apr 2016 by Mircea Diaconescu

Build a cheap, under 30€, Weather Station Sensor Node with the help of an Arduino board, and use WiFi connection to control it with any Android device.

Azure connectivity with Edison and controlling it by an Windows Phone app

18 Feb 2016 by Intel

How to control your Edison using Azure mobile services

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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?

Azure IoT - Good Security Practice

12 Oct 2018 by DataBytzAI

A quick run through important points for IoT security

Azure IoT Central Tester

17 Jan 2022 by Roman Kiss

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

Azure IoT Hub Overview

25 Aug 2018 by DataBytzAI

Azure IoT hub allows you to get on with developing cool IoT stuff, and not worry about how it all gets connected up and managed.

Azure IoT Hub with nanoFramework

16 Jan 2019 by José Simões

This project demos how easy it is to code a nanoFramework C# application to build a device connected to Azure IoT Hub using AMQP.

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Azure IoT Solution for Water Utilities

31 Mar 2015 by Prakash SNP

This article shows how to build an Azure IoT Solution for water utilities Industry

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Barcodescanner with webcam on Intel® Edison

16 Dec 2015 by Intel

With barcode scanning being a standard on mobile devices one might want to enable Intel(R) Edison to run automated barcode scannings.

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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

Biometric Locker- Intel Edison Based IoT Secured Locker With Cloud Based Voice and Face Biometric

8 Aug 2016 by Grasshopper.iics

From unboxing to prototype, a complete C# and Node.js Intel Edison product development guide with a real time cloud biometric IoT project

Blend the Intel® RealSense™ Camera and the Intel® Edison Board with JavaScript

22 Dec 2015 by Intel

Using Intel® RealSense™ technology, this project modifies the JavaScript framework sample script to send captured gesture data to the Node.js server.

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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.

Blockchain and the Hyperledger Sawtooth Implementation

26 Apr 2018 by Intel

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Brillo Comes to Intel® IoT Technology

16 Dec 2015 by Intel

Brillo, released today via an invitation program from Google, offers a holistic approach to the IoT solution landscape.

Bringing SSL to Arduino on Galileo Through wolfSSL

14 May 2015 by Intel

This paper examines two methods for adding SSL support to Arduino sketches running on Galileo via the wolfSSL library from wolfSSL, Inc.

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Bringing Up Arduino 101 (branded Genuino 101 outside the U.S.) on Ubuntu under VMware

18 Oct 2016 by Intel

This guide demonstrates how to run the Arduino 101 platform on Ubuntu using a VMware Workstation.

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Bringing Up Arduino 101 (branded Genuino 101 outside the U.S.) on Ubuntu under VMware

21 Dec 2016 by Intel

This guide demonstrates how to run the Arduino 101 platform on Ubuntu using a VMware* Workstation.

Build an Autonomous Mobile Robot with the Intel® RealSense™ Camera, ROS, and SAWR

13 Feb 2018 by Intel

In this article, we give an overview of the SAWR project and also offer some tips for building your own robot using the Intel RealSense camera and SAWR projects.

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Building a Robotic Platform Using the Intel® Edison Module

19 Dec 2016 by Intel

This article will investigate an exciting addition to the field of robotics offered by DFRobot at DFRobot.com.

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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.

Building IoT Teams, Lessons Learned

18 Mar 2016 by Intel

As a team of anthropologists, software architects, and designers in Intel® Labs, we observed dozens of organizations and interviewed a hundred-plus developers who build IoT solutions. They helped us identify what works for them (and what doesn’t) by telling us how they work, how they work together,

Building T.E.E.T.H. – Adding IoT to Your Bathroom with Intel® Edison technology

19 Feb 2015 by Nathan Carver

This DIY project shows you how to convert a store-bought toothbrush holder into an IoT home appliance.

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Building with the Intel® IoT Commercial Developer Kit

16 Oct 2015 by Intel

There is a concept called Path to Product. You can imagine that if you have a rocky path to building a product that you will face a variety of obstacles in trying to reach a functional prototype phase in your product development. Intel® IoT Commercial Developer Kit helps provide a smoother road.

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Building Your First ReconOS App

23 Feb 2017 by Intel

This article will walk through the steps to developing an app walking through downloading the required tools, to running the app for the first time on Recon Jet Pro.

Burglar Alarm Using the Intel® Galileo Board

10 Dec 2014 by matthias-hahn

This sample application was developed to showcase the use of a proximity sensor with the Intel® Galileo development board.

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Calculating True North for IoT Applications

11 Aug 2016 by CoderGirl42

Finding true North using GPS and a compass with Raspberry Pi.

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.

Case Study：Build a Smart Conference System by Enabling ZigBee on the Intel® Edison Platform

18 Mar 2016 by Intel

Based on the simple Arduino ZigBee stack, we developed the SCR System, which can detect the real-time environmental situation of a specific room and make a smart schedule for employees, helping to make conference rooms reservations easier and more convenient.

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Claim Your Elite Status as an Intel® IoT Innovator

21 Jul 2017 by Intel

If you’re a world-class software developer who wants to play a leadership role in the emerging Internet of Things, Intel would like to talk to you.

Close call reporter in C++

23 Jun 2017 by Intel

This close-call fleet driving reporter 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.

Code Samples: Equipment Activity Monitor, (How-To Intel® IoT Technology Series)

9 Sep 2016 by Intel

This shop-floor equipment activity monitor 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.

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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.

Communication Patterns for the Internet of Things

20 Jun 2016 by Intel

Before you embark on a new Internet of Things project, you should consider which communication patterns are best suited to it.

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Comparing the Intel® Joule™ Module and the Intel® Edison Module

21 Oct 2016 by Intel

The Intel® Joule™ module is the newest addition to a line of powerful, multi-purpose development boards from Intel®

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Connect a GPRS modem to Intel® Edison

15 Jul 2015 by Intel

This article tries to explain how to establish a data network (using ppp) by connecting a GPRS shield to the Intel® Edison board. An active T-Mobile SIM is being used in the shield.

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Connect the Intel® Edison Board to IBM IoT Foundation

13 Nov 2015 by Intel

This article talks about creating a Bluemix application, registering a device, setting triggers using NodeRED flow editor and visualizing data using Rickshaw JS.

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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

Connecting an Intel® IoT Gateway to Amazon Web Services

8 Sep 2016 by Intel

This guide will walk you through adding the IoT Cloud repository to your Intel® IoT Gateway and adding support for Amazon Web Services so you can begin developing applications for this platform in your programming language of choice.

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Connecting an Intel® NUC to the Google Cloud Platform Service

18 May 2017 by Intel

This paper will show you how to use an Intel® NUC to connect sensors on an Arduino 101 (branded Genuino 101 outside the U.S.) to the Google Cloud Platform

Connecting Intel® IoT Gateways To IBM Watson

19 Jul 2016 by Intel

This guide will walk you through adding the IoT Cloud repository to your Intel® IoT Gateway and adding support for IBM Watson so you can begin developing applications for this platform in your programming language of choice.

Connecting Intel® RealSense™ 3D Camera With the Intel® Edison - JavaScript

15 Sep 2015 by Intel

In this article we will be using Intel® RealSense™ technology JavaScript Framework to send hand gesture data to a server and the server will send the data to trigger the buzzer and LED connected by Intel® Edison.

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.

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

8 May 2015 by Intel

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

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)

Connecting the Intel® IoT Gateway to Microsoft Azure

9 Sep 2016 by Intel

This guide will walk you through adding the IoT Cloud repository to your Intel® IoT Gateway and adding support for Microsoft Azure so you can begin developing applications for this platform in your programming language of choice.

Connecting to Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT using MQTT

17 May 2016 by Intel

This article provides a step-by-step guide to show you how to set up a connection to Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT using MQTT, as well as command and code samples for additional setup and ease of use.

Connecting to AT&T M2X IoT using MQTT

21 Jul 2017 by Intel

Connecting to AT&T M2X IoT using MQTT

Connecting to AT&T M2X IoT using MQTT

25 Oct 2017 by Intel

Connecting to AT&T M2X IoT using MQTT

Connecting to Google Cloud Platform with Node-RED

27 Mar 2017 by Intel

This guide will walk you through adding the IoT Cloud repository to your Intel® IoT Gateway and adding support for the Google Cloud Platform.

Connecting to IBM Bluemix Internet of Things using MQTT

17 May 2016 by Intel

This article provides a step-by-step guide to show you how to set up a connection to IBM Bluemix using MQTT, as well as command and code samples for additional setup and ease of use.

Connecting to Intel® Edison from Android with Bluetooth LE (BLE)

11 Jun 2015 by Intel

The goal of this document is to show you how to write code and connect the hardware to establish BLE communication between an Intel Edison and a Bluetooth 4.0-equipped Android device, using free software tools and low-cost, off-the-shelf hardware.

Connecting to Microsoft Azure with Node-RED

18 Oct 2016 by Intel

This guide will walk you through adding the IoT Cloud repository to your Intel® IoT Gateway and adding support for Microsoft Azure so you can begin developing applications for this platform in your programming language of choice.

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Connecting to SAP Cloud Platform Internet of Things

24 Jul 2017 by Intel

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Connecting to the IBM Watson IoT Platform with Intel® IoT Gateway Software Suites

9 Sep 2016 by Intel

This guide shows you how to set up and program three key components for designing and developing real-world Internet of Things (IoT) apps

Connectivity Technologies and the Internet of Things

22 Jun 2017 by Intel

IoT supports many ways to transfer data, and Bluetooth® LE, or Wi-Fi (to name a few) may not be the right fit for every device. The goal of this article is to make your selection easier by exploring the advantages and practical application examples for each technology.

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Control Robots Using Cylon.js and the Intel® Edison Board

19 Aug 2016 by Intel

Using the JavaScript framework Cylon.js, you can control different robotic components easily in a web-based interface. To do so, you need a basic robot kit that has two direct-current (DC) motors controlled and powered only by the board: There’s no need for extra hardware, which makes the project ea

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.

Creating a Bluetooth Smart/Low Energy iBeacon application

18 Apr 2016 by Intel

This guide contains steps to create a Bluetooth Smart/Low Energy (BLE) iBeacon application that runs on an Intel® Galileo board or Intel® Edison board, advertising the board's presence as a BLE device

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.

Creating a Smart Home Chat Bot

12 Aug 2016 by Florian Rappl

We utilize the Microsoft Bot Framework in conjunction with LUIS to make a Node.js powered bot available online via an ASP.NET Web API proxy. A software mock for the smart home system is supplied. Likewise a tutorial for a hardware mock using the CC3200 and / or sensor tags is provided.

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Creating a Yocto image for the Intel® Galileo board using split layers

16 Sep 2015 by Intel

This is a guide for building images from source for the Intel® Galileo board, part of the Intel® IoT Developer Kit.

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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.

Creating an application that communicates with your board using Web Sockets

17 May 2016 by Intel

This simple Node.js project uses the socket.io Node.js module to enable real-time communication between a client and an Intel® Galileo board or Intel® Edison board.

Creating applications with the MCU SDK for the Intel® Edison board

15 Jul 2015 by Intel

This guide contains steps to create, build, and debug applications for the generic microcontroller unit (MCU) on an Intel® Edison board using the MCU SDK.

Cut Energy Costs with a Smart Real-Time Occupancy Solution from Feedback Solutions and Intel

3 Apr 2018 by Intel

Cut Energy Costs with a Smart Real-Time Occupancy Solution from Feedback Solutions and Intel

Data sharing between programming environments on Intel® Edison

11 Jun 2015 by Intel

In my blog today, I am going to talk about publisher-subscriber model for sharing data between various programs running in Linux.

Debug FPGA Hardware with System Console

14 Nov 2017 by Intel

This tutorial shows you how to use the System Console debugging tool to program a compiled FPGA design into an FPGA device, then access the hardware modules (i.e. peripherals) that are instantiated in that FPGA design.

Designing Scalable IoT Architectures

22 Jun 2017 by Intel

This article will discuss both design considerations for IoT and new methods in creating a robust network using Intel® processors.

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Detecting Seismic Waves with Android and IOT

9 Aug 2016 by ridoy

A R/D approach to detect earth seismic activities with IoT and make an android device self aware to save your life.