[HH] Electric imp?

[Drew Van Zandt]

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?


Roughly an infinite number of them, yes.  Features and price vary, but at
the $20-ish price point I have seen offerings from half a dozen
professional-grade vendors and enough startups that I'm starting to get
twitchy when I see a new one.  Search Digikey for wifi module and read some
datasheets, you'll find one that does FOO.

*Drew Van ZandtArtisan's Asylum Board of DirectorsFirefly Arts Collective
Board of Directors*

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Greg London <email at greglondon.com> wrote:

> 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/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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