[HH] Electric imp?

[Jon Evans]

The "gotcha" is that they take care of your data connection.  Last I
looked, there was no way to get it to work without their hosted services.
It may be possible to hack it / reverse-engineer it, but that sounds like a
waste of time.  I guess if you are OK with trusting them with handing the
networking / cloud storage part, it's not actually a gotcha.  But I
wouldn't use it, because I would want to be able to make it connect to a
backend that I wrote, running in my house, not in their cloud.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Greg London <email at greglondon.com> wrote:

>
> Anyone have any experience with the electric imp?
>
> https://electricimp.com/platform/
>
>
> A friend was telling me about it and it sounds pretty great.
> A microcontroller in an sd card package. Built in wifi.
> They take care of the data connection so you can focus
> On your application.
>
> And the base model is only $20 ???
>
> Is there a gotcha to this I dont see?
>
>
> Greg
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