Meadow foundation

You can finally configure your Meadow projects with Azure using IoT Hub! This guide will guide you step by step of what you need to do generate a sas access token that you’ll add on your project to communicate with azure to send and…

A large subset of what’s called “motion control” is all about using motors to perform actions.  From large industrial conveyors and bulk material augers down to 3D printers and hobby robots, motors are everywhere. The question for us is “how do I control those…

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…

Hello once again, In this post, I want to draw your attention to the couple of servos included in your awesome Meadow Hack Kit. These are pretty straight forward to set up using the Meadow.Foundation driver library. For these peripherals, you’ll need to search…

Hello Makers, It has been a while since I make another post about another peripheral included in Meadow’s Hack Kit. This time we’re going to learn how to work with relays using Meadow.Foundation. No need to download any NuGet packages to use this peripheral,…

Hello friends, In this blog post I want to show you how we simplified the way to use push buttons on Meadow for beta 4.5 release (which is included in the Meadow Hack Kit) using Meadow.Foundation. Important Note: whenever we’re working with Digital Interrupt…

Hello Makers, In this blog post I want to show you how simple is to control LEDs using Meadow.Foundation. In other platforms you would need to set digital output ports or PWM ports to control the LEDs by changing its values explicitly. With Meadow.Foundation,…

Hello Makers, In this post we’re going over the Capacitive Soil Moisture sensor included in the Hack Kit. Capacitive Moisture Sensor is a soil moisture sensor based on capacitance changes. When the humidity of the soil rises, the value of the output decreases; conversely,…

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…

Hello friends, Just wanted to write a blog post about how incredibly easy is to wire up an LCD 20×4 character display (which is included in the Meadow Hack Kit) using Meadow.Foundation. First thing you’ll need to do is search and install the Meadow.Foundation.Displays.LCD.CharacterDisplay…

Drawing images on a display is pretty much table-stakes for any sort of display-based application, and embedded software is no exception. Meadow Foundation‘s MicroGraphics Library is our go-to for drawing things like lines, shapes and text, but it wasn’t terribly friendly for drawing images….

Our MicroLayout library provides a lightweight framework for creating HMIs with labels, buttons and images but sometimes that’s just not quite enough to give your users the information you want. IoT devices very often collect time-series telemetry, and displaying that data is usually meaningful…