Wilderness labs

Google and Microsoft have publicly stated that they’ve found more than two-thirds of all security vulnerabilities in applications are due to memory issues. Recognizing the potentially catastrophic impact of such vulnerabilities, the U.S. CISA, NSA, FBI, and International Cybersecurity Authorities (from the Five Eyes) posted strong guidance a few years ago urging developers to move away from these legacy platforms in favor of memory-safe runtimes like .NET for IoT.

For over 50 years, an architecture known as SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) has been used to monitor, manage, automate, and control large-scale industrial processes. Today, SCADA has become indispensable across industries like manufacturing, energy, water and waste management, transportation, and more. The…

As modern .NET developers, we’re gotten used to seeing and using Tasks in our code. They do a great job of abstracting away the complexity and dangers of old school multi-threaded code. If you’ve got experience creating complex threaded applications using Threads you definitely…

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….

It wasn’t too long ago that the release process for the Meadow stack was…let’s just call it horribly inefficient. From when we decided “time to ship a build” to when NuGets were available was literally measured in days. It was a process that we…

Meadow is now v1.0 Thanks to everyone who attended DevCamp 2023, either in person or virtually! We enjoyed seeing so many customers and community members. We announced a LOT of innovative product news at DevCamp that we’ve been working on, but one announcement stood…

On April 12, developer advocate Jorge Ramirez and Adrian Stevens did a presentation at Microsoft Reactor in Redmond, showing a roadmap of what it takes to take an IoT project from idea to Production and how to make it possible with Meadow. Fortunately we…

We’re excited to announce that we’re hosting our first ever, in-person, DevCamp in Seattle on May 18th/19th, 2023. Join us to be the first to hear some awesome Meadow news. Registration is free, and the in-person portion is invite-only. But don’t worry; even if…

PORTLAND, Ore., March 16, 2023 –  Wilderness Labs, a pioneering startup that has created an accessible IoT platform that opens the embedded hardware space to millions of .NET developers,  has announced the successful funding of its $3.3MM seed round. This funding is led by…

Check out our awesome series of archived livestream videos in which Wilderness Labs CEO, Bryan Costanich, walks through creating a custom Meadow Core-Compute Module powered GPS/GNSS tracker from start to finish. In this series, he starts with designing the PCB and then goes through…

That’s right! The long-awaited Meadow Core-Compute-Module (CCM) and CCM Dev Kit boards are going out the door to those that have pre-ordered them. If you’re designing production-IoT w/Meadow, these can help you get to production faster, easier, and without the supply chain headache! Meadow F7 CCMs have all…

A big congratulations to Project Green for winning an impact sponsorship. They’ve built a prototype residential water usage sensor that attaches to a water meter, uploads usage data to a dashboard where folks can track their water usage and notifies them if they’ve got…

As we work hard towards our biggest Meadow update yet, we just rolled out a beta build of our command line tool, Meadow.CLI, that will help make flashing, deploying files, listen to COM ports and more, work more reliably. Open a terminal and type:…

If you couldn’t attend our Meadow presentations at the Nuttx International workshop 2022, you can catch recording session on the Nuttx official YouTube channel: Here’s Mark Steven’s presentation, talking about how we use NuttX on our Meadow boards. Here’s Neal Ferguson’s presentation talking about…

Our Twitch stream is back and going strong! Join us every Wednesday at 10a PT as we walk through the entire hardware design lifecycle. In the last three episodes, we designed a battery-powered Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Sensor Tracker, and they’re . If…

Wilderness Labs announces the appointment of Thomas Dohmke as Chair of the Board of Wilderness Labs. Dohmke is the CEO of GitHub, the largest developer community on the planet. Having been a developer for over 30 years, Thomas brings extensive experience in building developer…

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…

We have now released our last beta update of the year, VS2022 extension! – Meadow officially supports Visual Studio 2022! Open the Manage Extensions dialog in Visual Studio to install. The existing extension for VS2019 and VSCode has also been updated with more stability…

Microsoft Partner Program Manager, Scott Hanselman, and Product Manager for WSL, Craig Loewen walk through how to connect Meadow to the Windows Linux Subsystem for full device support. Once connected, Scott performs a live demo on how to flash the last OS onto Meadow…

Meadow b5.3 is out, and it’s our most stable and complete release yet. We spent a lot of effort fixing issues introduced in b5.1/b5.2, and also added SQLite support to Meadow! Big changes and fixes include: SQLite Support – SQLite is now built into Meadow.OS…

This is a small release that mainly focuses on cleanup of Meadow.Foundation, and fixing Bluetooth (which we broke in b5.1): BLE Fix – We broke the Bluetooth stack (among other small things) in b5.1 due to issues with our CI release pipeline. Most of the…

We have now shipped another full stack update for Meadow, meaning new Meadow.OS binaries, Meadow.CLI, NuGet packages and VS Extension updates. The major highlights for this release are: Full .NET Standard 2.1 – We moved all the projects over to .NET Standard 2.1. (Last release…

If you’re running beta 5.1 we released just now, after completing a full stack update from Meadow.OS to the VS Extension, you’ll also need to update your Meadow Application projects. In this post I’m going to show you how to do that. In beta…

In late September, 1999, Nasa’s Mars Climate Orbiter prepared to enter a stable orbit around the Red Planet to serve as a comms relay for the 1998 Mars Polar Lander and monitor climate on the planet below.  Launched December the year before, the USD$125MM…