This projects lets you partake in virtual tank-like battles of up to 64 players throughout your office, house or pretty much anywhere. Created by Denis Kurilchik and the Roboboom team, the ARbot project consists of a spherical robot and a mobile app that bridges the gap between real and virtual worlds, allowing users to partake in tank-like battles of up to 64 […]
SAM G MCU + WILC1000 Wi-Fi SoC + MiCO IoT OS = Secure Cloud Access Atmel and MXCHIP, a top 10 China IoT start-up according to Techno, have announced that the two companies are coming together to develop an ultra-low power Internet of Things (IoT) platform with secure Wi-Fi access to the cloud, enabling designers to quickly bring their connected devices to market. […]
IoT Day falling on Throwback Thursday can mean only one thing… a trip down memory lane to where it all began! The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term first coined by Keven Ashton in 1999 during a PowerPoint presentation he made while working for Procter & Gamble. The phrase referred to a future world where all types of […]
Created by a team of Cornell students, these smart garments have the front page of Adafruit written all over them. Smart garments are one of the wearables that Gartner has billed as having the greatest potential for growth. A testament to the limitless possibilities of that space is a recent project by a group of undergrads from Cornell University. The students have created a set of embedded outfits […]
Kaivan Karimi, Atmel VP and GM of Wireless Solutions, shares the top 10 factors to consider when transitioning from IT cloud to IoT cloud. In mid-2013, the buzz phrase “Internet of Things,” also known as the “IoT,” set the technology world on fire. As a result of this craze, a lot of products that were developed for completely different end applications changed […]
First, there were wearables. Then, there were hearables. Now, get ready for soundables. Designed by Ylenia Gortana in collaboration with New York musician Birdmask, Showpiece is a jacket that functions as an actual electronic music interface. The garment, which at first appears to look just like an ordinary winter coat, is comprised of touch-sensivtive tiles that replace its typical down insulation. The entire piece was built using various conductive e-textiles, which are […]
SAM L21 MCUs consume less than 940nA with full 40kB SRAM retention, real-time clock and calendar, and 200nA in the deepest sleep mode. The Internet of Things (IoT) juggernaut has unleashed a flurry of low-power microcontrollers, and in that array of energy-efficient MCUs, one product has earned the crown jewel of being the lowest-power Cortex M-based […]
The new Atmel | SMART L21 is expanding battery life from years to decades. This week, Atmel revealed the big news that the recently-unveiled Atmel | SMART SAM L family consumes just one-third the power of existing solutions already on the market. Having achieved a 185 EEMBC ULPBench score, the SAM L21 is now the world’s lowest power ARM Cortex-M based […]
Picking an Arduino is as easy as Uno, Due, Tre! Thinking about starting a project? See which Arduino board is right for the job. Arduino Uno This popular board — based on the ATmega328 MCU — features 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz ceramic resonator, USB […]
Just in case you need to sharpen your Arduino trivia skills… Saturday is Arduino Day, a worldwide celebration of the open-source board along with the countless gizmos and gadgets made with it. Originally envisioned for students and artists to quickly prototype projects, you can now find Arduino powering just about everything from DIY wearables and robots to clever hacks and […]
