An Arduino Uno-compatible home automation board requires no separate power supply as a power source soldered onto the board itself. According to the developer GarageLab, it is supplied directly from the electrical grid with voltages between 100 to 240Vac and 50 or 60Hz and so usable around the world. Dubbed the Automation Board, it has four relays to trigger alarms, ...
A small modular development system aimed at the maker community has built-in software compatibility with both Arduino and Raspberry Pi designs. Called Modulo is a set of interchangeable processor-based modules for designing electronic systems with the need for breadboards, wires, and capacitors. Each Modulo has its own microcontroller to handle its operation and communicate with the system controller. The plan ...
For the first time since the launch of Raspberry Pi in 2012, designers can have access to a Windows application or desktop remotely by using its RDP client that runs on Raspberry Pi’s native Linux OS. US-based firm Parallels is offering client software that allows users to access their Windows applications and desktops remotely from the super low cost Raspberry ...
Microsoft has strengthened its ties with the maker community. The Arduino organisation has certified the Windows 10 operating system for running on its development platform. There are also Windows Virtual Shields for Arduino technologies and a wireless access application called Windows Remote Arduino and both are released as open source libraries. A Windows 10 based design described at the Build ...
Arrow Electronics is adding open-source hardware to its embedded design offerings and it has signed up to Linaro, the organisation which optimises open-source software for ARM processor-based designs. Arrow will sell open-source ARM-based boards as part of the Linaro community known as “96Boards”. The community includes both maker and embedded product manufacturers. “96Boards is building a single software and hardware community ...
If you want a camera to record runs or bike rides, maker/designer Connor Yamada has created a low cost biking-centric action camera using Raspberry Pi and open source software. “The design of the action camera had to be based on off-the-shelf components. If you have access to a 3D printer and soldering iron, you can build this project,” says Yamada. The ...
An Arduino-based wireless module which runs Android and Linux is the latest IoT embedded development product to get backing on the Kickstarter crowd-funding website. According to Boston-based developer UDOO, the Neo board combines the features of Arduino and Raspberry Pi and so can be programmed in any language and run a full Linux environment with graphic interfaces. The developer’s first UDOO ...
A couple of developers have come up with a way of designing Raspberry Pi into portable, battery-powered systems. Maybe this is where Raspberry Pi meets the internet of things, we are not sure, but the project has certainly been a huge success on the Kickstarter crowd-funding website. Called the PiJuice, the aim was to “to remove a barrier to entry ...
Aiming at programmers who want to interface to the real world, Toronto-based Onion has created a tiny MIPS-based Linux cloud-to-hardware development board, and made it the subject of a Kickstarter project. The firm has an interesting pitch. Called Omega, the PCB is tiny, with on-board Wi-Fi and almost nothing else, except an expansion port. “It is very small, a quarter ...
Raspberry Pi continues to inspire young developers of embedded systems products. One games enthusiast has used a Raspberry Pi to create a pocket-sized games console. Dubbed the MicroPi : Play, it is the work of developer and retro games enthusiast Tarsem Dhillon, who decided the micro sized Linux board would be a good platform for a small and affordable console for ...
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