Meadow

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…

And it’s the biggest release we’ve ever put out, with a pile of new features and goodies, including: Bluetooth v1.0 – That’s right, BLE support is here. Check out the Bluetooth Guide for details. .NET Standard 2.1 API Support – Meadow now fully supports…

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…

Hello Makers, As you probably know by now, we rolled out a new beta with updates on Meadow.CLI, Meadow.OS, Meadow.Core and Meadow.Foundation, so be sure to flash your devices with our latest Deploy Meadow.OS instructions and update all your NuGet packages to make sure…

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…

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…

It’s pretty common for an IoT application to need to read persistent but changeable settings at startup. Meadow applications have long supported the app.config.yaml file for settings to control behavior of the Resolver.Log, the device’s lifecycle behavior (e.g. restarting on an uncaught exception) or…

If you’re building an industrial embedded application, you’re probably aware of the RS485 standard. It’s been an industry standard for decades and it persists because it’s both simple and works very well over long distances and in EM-noisy environments. The Wilderness Labs Project Lab…

Do you need to spin up a project enclosure for your Meadow project? Check out our parametric enclosure: The size is easily adjusted via variables to fit your project needs, and can be 3D printed at home for quick prototyping!

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…

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…

At Wilderness Labs we strive to simplify integrating hardware into your .NET solutions. Industrial automation and process control are very hardware-heavy, and Meadow provides the ability to add in sensors and telemetry to your plant floor in a fast, inexpensive, and unobtrusive way. You…

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…

Hello friends, If you missed the Meadow presentation at .NET Conf, you can check the recorded session right now on YouTube. Bryan Costanich and Adrian Stevens show off how relevant is for us software developers to get into IoT and how much our platform…

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…

Hello friends, In case you missed the Meadow presentation at CodingAfterWork Twitch stream, you can check the recorded session right away. Jimmy and Jessica Engstrom interviews Bryan about IoT and Jorge shows a great Meadow project that gathers weather data from the public web…

Hello friends, In case you missed the Meadow presentation at the On .NET Live series, you can check the recorded session right away. Cecil Philips interviews Bryan about IoT and the latest updates on Meadow boards, showing new features like running SQLite to log…

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…

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 at the On .NET Live series, you can check the recorded session right away. Cecil Philips interviews Bryan about IoT and Jorge shows a great Meadow project that gathers weather data from the public web…

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…

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…

Did you know that since Meadow.OS v1.6, you can use the Direct Memory Access (DMA) feature on the F7 to do Analog to Digital Conversions (ADC) at an incredibly high sampling rate? While the AnalogInputPort provides a powerful way to do analog port reads…