[HH] Electric imp?

[Jon Evans]

I briefly played with a spark core (now renamed particle core, apparently
superseded by particle photon).  It was neat.  Unlike the electric imp,
it's mostly open source: http://spark.github.io/ so if you don't want to
use their cloud services, at least you can in theory change it to use
something you create.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Greg London <email at greglondon.com> wrote:

>
> 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?
> >
> >
> > 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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