The Consumer Llama and the Internet of Things
The goal for this comic is to provide generic slides anyone can use to explain the different IoT methodologies, comparing and contrasting the technologies and their impact on customers.
Read MoreAn Idea for a Weasley Clock
In Harry Potter, there was a magical item called a Weasley Clock which showed where everyone in the family was at particular time. Tom from Australia wrote in, wanting to design one but not sure how to get started. He’s new to embedded but is a software developer. I was amused by the idea of such a clock and procrastinating about another project so I put together a response. Happily, Tom says you can read his mail so here it is.
Read MoreElementary Quantum Mechanics
Some of you may have suffered through enough physics in college to remember something called the “Electron in a box” model. Well, today I’m going to show you an Electron coming out of a box.
A while back I wrote up a small project with the Particle.io Photon, a Wifi-enabled prototyping board that can be programmed using Arduino-like code. I got a surprise in the mail this week: an intriguing successor to the Photon, the also unsearchably named “Electron”.
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