Getting physical projects to talk to the Internet can be tricky. Students making Networked Objects have always had tons of choices, but each with a significant downside: Now each of these methods has an upside too. Ethernet is fast and reliable, WiFi easily found, cell modules can connect from anywhere and Bluetooth has a zippy […]
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I’m working with a group of smart folks on a new energy-monitoring startup to put mesh networked devices into about 100 homes on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard. GroundedPower’s new Smart Energy Monitoring pilot project will begin in April. I believe we’re finally seeing the first wave of embedded communicative computing that Mark Weiser predicted back in 1991 and
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Whoa, is this cat from Siegfried & Roy or Cheech & Chong? I guess their point is, why roll your own connectors when you can get ’em from the world’s favorite animal? Here’s the results of my latest Samtec tiger hunt: * * use caution when you’re hunting tigers as they
