[HH] Electric imp?

[Greg London]

This looks crazy. Its an app for your phone that lets you directly control
the pins of the chip. It lets you debug or you can use it as a basis for
your app.


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On Wed, September 16, 2015 2:08 pm, Greg London wrote:
> 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?
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> So all your arduino code should just work.
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> On Wed, September 16, 2015 1:31 pm, Greg London wrote:
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>> Federico: the only Arduino "support" that I see is a help page for
>> converting your arduino code to imp.
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>> Apparently imp is programmed in squirrel. I would have to learn
>> squirrel to use imp.
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>> 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.
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>> Whether or not THEY write secure code is a valid question I dont have
>> the answer to.
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>> 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?
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>> Greg
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>> On Wed, September 16, 2015 12:30 pm, Jon Evans wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Greg London <email at greglondon.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> Anyone have any experience with the electric imp?
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> And the base model is only $20 ???
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>>>> Is there a gotcha to this I dont see?
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>>>> Greg
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