Connected things

Creating a production IoT solution is a daunting challenge. Most embedded solutions that make it to the field are written using Embedded-C, a 50 year old language that has changed little in its intervening years, along with its associated tooling, which isn’t much better….

If you work directly with a Meadow F7 Feather or a Meadow Core Compute Module, accessing the hardware signals from your application is pretty simple and straightforward. The Meadow.Core stack exposes the Device.Pins collection so creating something as simple as an IDigitalOutputPort is pretty…

Our mission is deceptively simple: to make hardware development as fast and easy as web or mobile development. And to that end, we’ve spent five years solving incredibly difficult challenges to democratize hardware development for all. Prototype without breadboarding. This week, we announced the…

In this post shows you how I performs a full stack update, meaning updates for the Meadow.CLI, Meadow.OS binaries, Visual Studio extensions, and Meadow.Foundation drivers and updates. Check out our Release Notes to see all the latest changes in every beta release. Updating your…

Not long ago, one of our Meadow engineers, Chris Tacke, did a very interesting demo using Meadow to show what working in IoT looks like coming as a .NET software developer, and you’ll be surprised on how easy and familiar is to use our…

Hey folks!  Bryan here, I wanted to share some learning we gained around batteries and the supply chain that might be useful in your own battery-powered, IoT solutions.  As a reference IoT kit, Clima is intended to help our customers accelerate their own production-IoT…

I’m starting on a new side project for fun. I want to create a scoring box for fencing (the olympic sport, not building fences). If you don’t know much about fencing, the score box is wired to each fencer and their blade and it…

Hi folks, Jorge here, and in this post I wanted to point out a few things to consider when upgrading your Meadow Application from a F7v1 to a F7v2 board. While both may look very similar at first sight, F7v2 packs a number of…

If you’d like to get real time weather data to your Meadow projects, you should try using the free public weather web service OpenWeatherMap, which we use already in a couple of our projects up on Hackster. First you’ll need to create an account…

About a year ago I was working on a project for an NVIDIA Jetson Nano that used four pretty common and easy to find peripheral devices. As a long-time embedded .NET developer, I decided that using the .NET IoT library was probably the route…

Hello friends of Wilderness Labs! Bryan here, and I’m super excited to break the news on a piece of technical art we’ve been working on for the last year, the Meadow F7v2 board: The F7v2 is the successor to our popular F7v1 board and…

It’s the last chance to buy a Hack Kit in time for shipping for the holidays, and we’re running a 48 hour flash sale to help you make it happen! Now until Friday @ Midnight Pacific Time, get $20 off!! (Discount applied at checkout.) Dont…

Hello friends, In case you missed the Meadow presentation at .NET Conf 2020, you can check the recorded session right away. Adrian talks about the upcoming wave in IoT, the impact it will have in our lives, and show’s the network capable project to…

Hello friends, In case you missed the Meadow presentation last night, you can check the recording right here. Here we talk about the IoT revolution, the impact it will have in our lives, and we go over an end-to-end client-server solution to monitor climate…

Hello friends, In case you missed the Meadow presentation last night, you can head over to YouTube and watch the recorded session right away. Adrian talks about the upcoming wave in IoT, the impact it will have in our lives, and show’s the network…

Hey there, we’ve got some tasty news for you Meadow fans. Meadow b4.0.1 is out! We’ve got a fresh new beta release that focuses on stability and ease of use, and along with it some major improvements: Expanded set of Meadow Base Class…

The long awaited Meadow b4.0 release is here! And along with it, WiFi networking, file system, and more! We also released b3.12 since we’ve last written, which had another pile of goodies, including: Garbage Collector tuned up for our MCU. Tons of bug fixes…

Building connected things is about to get a whole lot easier. The hardware revolution is nearly upon us. A decade of rapid development and mass production of mobile technologies has created a new class of hardware components that are low-energy, super powerful, connected, and…

When working with Netduino, you can literally build hardware at the speed of software. Are you a C# .Net developer that wants to build connected solutions but you feel like you don’t have the knowledge you need to assemble and control hardware? Are you…

We are absolutely astonished with the projects submitted to our Netduino contest on Hackster.io. Thanks to every one of you who contributed your Netduino project ideas and projects! We’re at the beginning of the connected things revolution, in which many of these efforts are…

Effective immediately, we’ve made a huge price cut on our highest end Netduino models! As of today, July 26, 2018, we’ve lowered the price of a Netduino 3 WiFi from $69.95 USD to $50.00 USD, and a Netduino 3 Ethernet from $59.95 USD to…

In part 1 of this blog series, we looked at the dehydrator system as a whole. In this post in the dehydrator hacking series, we’re going to explore how to control the fan and heater in the dehydrator using relays to regulate temperature. We’ll explore…

Hey folks! We added automatic User Datagram Protocol (UDP) broadcast support to Maple Server that makes discovering and connecting to your Netduino-powered connected things a breeze. UDP allows you to broadcast a name and IP of your Netduino on a local network, so that…

In this blog series, I document the process of creating a smart appliance out of my dehydrator. Along the way, I’ll show you just how easy it is to create a sophisticated, connected appliance with Netduino.Foundation, which makes hardware development a plug-and-play experience. We’ll…