This article will show how you can connect your Evothings app to the IBM Bluemix cloud via a MQTT service within the IBM IoT Foundation. So let’s start with some background information around protocols. If you are impatient you can skip down! Protocols overview In the IoT world there are a few messaging protocols competing for attention, mainly XMPP, CoAP, … Read More
Fun holiday project! How to make a sensor enabled mobile app together with your kids
Holiday Garden Gnomes[Image credits] Holidays make for a great time being together tinkering and crafting. What about creating a mobile app together with your children as a holiday or weekend project? In en evening you can be up and running with your very own app – created with HTML and JavaScript by you and your family!
Using the Particle Photon as a wireless game controller
Two years ago, Particle (formerly Spark) launched their Kickstarter campaign to fund the development of the Core. It proved to be a fine idea, they got funding and since then we’ve seen a lot of things have changed in the IoT-market. Now the Particle Photon is out, a sequel to the Core, and its a bigger brother in several ways:
Listing Arduino SD file names with Evothings and Ionic
In this tutorial we will use Ionic Framework together with Evothings Studio to develop an app for listing the filenames in a SD card directory on the Arduino Wifi shield. Evothings Studio is designed for rapidly prototyping IoT apps using JavaScript and HTML. You can also use all the latest front-end JavaScript and HTML5 frameworks on the market, as well … Read More
Eddystone™ – Bluetooth Beacons are getting smarter
By Thomas Larnhed Eddystone™ is one of the most interesting developments on the Internet of Things right now. What is Eddystone and what can you do with beacons? Read on to learn more about this new exciting Internet of Things technology that can fit in your pocket and be applied to virtually any place or object around you.