XIG Ego Ticker
Matt Richardson of Make is using our XBee Internet Gateway to track and display all his online scores (Google results, YouTube followers and the like) on a big LED display he calls the Ego Ticker:...
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Los Angeles Innovator Visits
Just back from a Los Angeles journey to call on various innovators in my role as Collaborative Strategy Leader for Digi International. First, I paid a visit to statistics professor and data expert Mark...
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Building Wireless Sensor Networks: Advanced Kit Available!
The Advanced Kit for my Building Wireless Sensor Networks book is now finally available from SparkFun electronics! If you got the BWSN Basics Kit and still want more, the BWSN Advanced Kit can complete...
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Faludi in France & Italy
This month I’ll be speaking at WaveForum in Nice, France. On February 14th I’ll be presenting the XBee Internet Gateway and on the 15th I’ll be talking attendees through the latest Fun with XBees. Are...
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Talks at WaveForum in Nice, France
A new A380 carried me to the WaveForum conference in balmy Nice, on the French Rivera. There, somewhat bleary-eyed, I delivered a talk on the XBee Internet Gateway to customers and partners that...
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Transpiration Opening: Sensitive Buildings
The Transpiration project that started in my Sensitive Buildings class at NYU’s ITP was commissioned by 240 Central Park South to be a permanent installation in the courtyard of the building. It opened...
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Core77 2012 Design Awards: On The Jury
This year I’m on the jury for the Core77 Design Awards in the DIY category along with Adafruit’s Becky Stern, Banana Design Lab’s Yuri Gitman and Madagascar Institute’s Hackett. We’ll be looking at...
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Wireless Sensor Network Outreach: ICTP Trieste, Italy
About a week ago we had the marvelous opportunity to teach a three-day outreach workshop in wireless sensor networking and environmental monitoring at the International Center for Theoretical Physics...
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New XBee Projects Gallery
It’s going to be the largest collection of XBee projects on the Web. So many people have used XBee radios to create amazing things that Liz Presson and I created a place for Digi (makers of the XBee)...
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Faludi on NOVA Next “To Automate Everything”
I’m quoted this week on the NOVA web site in a well-done NOVA-next summary piece by Alison Bruzek’s about the Internet of Things. It’s called “To Automate Everything, Solve These Three Challenges“:...
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Digi Tracks Shuttles for 100,000 at Dreamforce
We just connected 100,000 Dreamforce conference attendees with 60 shuttle busses, tracking them over hundreds of miles of San Francisco area routes. And it worked perfectly! Digi’s Etherios division...
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Toward a Theory of Clothing
There are a multitude of unsolved mysteries left for science to tackle. We don’t know where life came from or whether it exists elsewhere in the universe. We’re not even sure what most of the universe...
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SXSW Panel Talk: Making to Manufacturing
I was honored to share the stage at SXSW with Sparkfun CEO Nathan Seidle, Silicon Labs’ Peter Vancorenland, Chaotic Moon’s Marc Boudria, and Atlas Wearables’ Peter Li in a panel discussion called...
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Four Trends Transforming IoT in 2016
Software is eating the world and the Internet of Things is no exception. In a new post for IoT NOW, I talk about four “software-minded” trends that I believe hardware vendors will increasingly consider...
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XBee MicroPython Examples
Introduction Simple programs can make a big difference! An XBee running small amounts of code can perform some pretty important tasks. Cryptic readings can be transformed into useful data, excess...
View ArticleNASA Puts XBees in Orbit
On Monday, March 6 at 10:20 p.m. Pacific time. NASA released TechEdSat 5 (Technical and Educational Satellite 5) satellite equipped with Digi XBee 802.15.4 modules as part of a test program for...
View ArticleLTE-M vs. NB-IoT: Determine the Differences Between Low Bandwidth Protocols
New cellular protocols rolling out in 2017 will provide low power and low cost cellular connectivity for industrial Internet of Things applications. In this new video for Digi International, I explain...
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Island in Thailand – Digital Naturalism Conference
Spent much of June on a jungle island in Thailand, attending a biology-art-hackathon-“un-conference” to build electronics projects that interact with nature. The first-ever Digital Naturalism...
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Sun Set Clock
Technology separates us from nature, but does it need to? I used some of my stay at the Digital Naturalism Conference in Thailand to prototype a clock that determines local time of day from sunlight...
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MicroPython Examples for XBee
I’ve been writing hands-on examples for using MicroPython on XBee radios. MicroPython is an open-source programming language based on Python 3, modified to fit on small devices, and optimized for...
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