[HH] Electric imp?

[Greg London]

Federico: the only Arduino "support" that I see is a help page for
converting your arduino code to imp.

Apparently imp is programmed in squirrel. I would have to learn squirrel
to use imp.

Jon: you have to use their cloud to get access to the device. As a
hardware guy who doesnt know internet security, I dont know if that is a
problem or not. If its just a local device, I could just physically
connect with it and bypass the cloud (i think it has some i2c interfaces
so i assume i could get the device to dump data through i2c. But if I want
to monitor something from my smart phone, there is no way I could write
secure code for that.

Whether or not THEY write secure code is a valid question I dont have the
answer to.

Is there anything out there this small, this cheap, this low power, that
would be a viable alternative for making an internet-of-things device?

Greg


On Wed, September 16, 2015 12:30 pm, Jon Evans wrote:
> 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/
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>>
>>
>> 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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