[HH] Electric imp?

[Greg London]

Hm. Just found particle.io
It says it uses the same hardware as imp
But it uses the same software as arduino.
It also has an option for sending data via cell phone?
Somehow?

So all your arduino code should just work.



On Wed, September 16, 2015 1:31 pm, Greg London 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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