Meadow

Hello Meadow developers, In this post, I want to show you how to use the Meadow Extension for Visual Studio Code. Installation Download the extension .vsix file from the latest GitHub release. Click File -> Preferences -> Extensions. In the Extensions tab , click the … menu and…

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….

The Meadow Core stack has a hard-coded requirement for Meadow Apps on the F7 platform to be named either “App.dll” or “App.exe”. This requirement is actually a bit of a legacy carryover from the beta days. Originally, when the Meadow stack only targeted the…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

Don’t want to bother soldering the headers on your Meadow F7 yourself? No problem, we now have an option to have them pre-soldered when you order from the Wilderness Labs store!

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…

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…

In an earlier blog I talked about why Meadow apps on the F7 (i.e. our Feather and Core Compute based products) are always named “App.dll”, but if you’re running Meadow on Linux or Windows, that explanation makes things a bit muddy. In this deep…

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:…

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…

Meadow v1.0: Revolutionizing IoT Development for 10MM+ .NET Developers with Unmatched Security, Speed, and Productivity PORTLAND, Ore., June 9, 2023 – Wilderness Labs, the driving force behind the Meadow platform, proudly announces the much-anticipated GA release of Meadow v1.0. After six years of dedicated…

Simply running your application is usually the primary focus of an IoT solution, but how do you know if it’s running well? How do you track if the app is crashing and the device is rebooting? How do you know what devices in the…

Hello fellow makers, This post is to showcase the most interesting and useful Meadow projects on Hackster released throughout this year: Working with µGraphics on a ST7789 Display Learn how to connect an SPI LCD display to your Meadow board to draw shapes, text…

Guess what? Today we shipped Meadow b4.5 and it’s a huge leap forward for our networking stack with two major pieces to it: TLS/SSL Support – So you can call your favorite `https` service endpoints. This should open up services like MQTT, Azure IoT,…

Check out these two awesome podcasts to learn about Meadow and embedded hardware. Episode 148 on The 6 Figure Developer Episode 52 on Coding after work

Industrial applications almost always have lots of sensors involved in them, and as a .NET developer, what better way is there to interact with sensors than using one of the Meadow platforms? Over the coming weeks and months I’ll cover a lot of the…

November is a busy conference season, and we’ll be talking about Meadow at three conferences all at the same time! Make sure to check us out.

We have several exciting appearances on the following events! Be sure to register to check them out: .NET Dev Summit APAC – Saturday October 31st, 2020 10:00 PM – 11:30 PM (PST) LA .NET Virtual Session – Tuesday November 10th, 2020 6:30 PM –…

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…