A tour of the Arduino UNO board
If you like experimenting with different electronic components but don’t have sufficient know-how, then Arduino is what you need to make a start… So what is Arduino? Arduino is a microcontroller-based...
View ArticleArduino programming for beginners-1
After understanding the hardware of the Arduino UNO board in the previous article, let’s now get started with Arduino programming. Arduino programs are written in the Arduino Integrated Development...
View ArticleArduino programming for beginners -2
In the previous article, we studied the basic structure of Arduino programming with examples. Now, in this article let’s look at a few more Arduino programming concepts like the following: if...
View ArticleUbuntu Core 16: Building secure and interoperable IoT ecosystems
I have been to quite a few IoT conferences, informal meetups, and listened to webinars and podcasts. During the Q & A or networking sessions, the questions that are most commonly asked by most...
View Article7 open source IoT operating systems that are democratizing the IoT space
The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule – Philippe Kahn (the creator of world’s first camera phone) The open...
View ArticleHow Fukushima nuclear disaster powered smart farming in Japan
On March 11, 2011, the most intense earthquake in Japanese history hit its north east coast — magnitude 9.0. The earthquake was so powerful that it severely damaged buildings, road, and rail...
View ArticleMQTT protocol – Powering Facebook messenger to IoT devices
In 2011, Lucy Zhang, Ben Davenport and Jon Perlow joined Facebook and started building the Facebook messenger. A major hurdle in their endeavor was long latency when sending a message. The method that...
View Article17 open source IoT projects to work on in 2017
2017 is round the corner and it’s time to build a checklist of New Year resolutions. And I am sure one resolution is common among all the IoT developers, i.e, contributing to open source IoT projects....
View ArticleWhy JavaScript is used in IoT
In 1995, JavaScript emerged as programming language to create web pages. Brendan Eich developed JavaScript with syntax similar to C, but nobody believed that JavaScript would play a major role in...
View ArticleTop programming languages used in IoT
In recent times, the Internet of Things is ubiquitous and is now a popular domain in the developer community. According to research by Statista, there are 6.21 million developers working in IoT and...
View ArticleCan the Asus Tinker Board take the pie away from Raspberry Pi ?
To satisfy our voracious appetite for economical, easily-programmable, and open source hardware to bring our imagination to life, technology giants such as Broadcom, Intel, Texas Instruments,...
View ArticleIoT NEWS packets -1
In this ever-evolving world of IoT, the makers and developers have to keep their information log updated to stay relevant in the field. Having said that, it is not easy because of the lack of time and...
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