Internet of Things archives
73 posts from 2015
The App-Enabled Spider
By Maarten Ectors, 8 September 2015
This is a guest post by the Erle-Robotics team as part of “the startup stories”, a series of blog posts about how and why innovative companies are using...
Meet Mycroft: Open Source Artificial Intelligence Powered by Snappy
By Maarten Ectors, 14 August 2015
This is a guest post by the Mycroft team as part of “the startup stories”, a series of blog posts about how and why innovative companies are using Ubuntu...
The first app-enabled spider
By Maarten Ectors, 5 August 2015
If you are into robot spiders then the erle-spider is something to look forward to. It will be the first app-enabled Snappy Ubuntu Core and ROS powered robot...
Packaging a Java application for Snappy Ubuntu is this easy…
By Dustin Kirkland, 3 August 2015
Java on Snappy
By Maarten Ectors, 3 August 2015
Snapcraft is a new tool allowing developers to easily and quickly package their favourite projects as Snappy Apps or Snaps. Since lots of enterprise...
Spreedbox – most private video chat and file exchange
By Maarten Ectors, 30 July 2015
This is a guest post by Struktur AG. Today, most organizations use online services for communication and often have confidential data shared and stored with...
More Juju, Big Data and Snappy Beauty from Dataart
By Maarten Ectors, 23 July 2015
What do you get when you combine Juju with Spark & Apache Zeppelin, Raspberry Pi with Snappy, Bluetooth Low Energy, DeviceHive and a TI SensorTag? Check out...
Flying mobile base stations
By Maarten Ectors, 9 July 2015
Lime Microsystems builds open source hardware chips to enable any type of wireless communication, called software defined radio. Elre-robotics makes...
IoT: RIOT and Snappy connect the smallest of devices
By Canonical, 5 June 2015
RIOT is a smart and developer-friendly open source operating system designed specifically for the Internet of Things. RIOT is vendor-independent and...
So You Want to Write a Snappy App?
By Canonical, 3 June 2015
Introduction If you are anything like me, you love to write apps for Ubuntu. Like the Ubuntu phone two years ago, snappy is a bit of a green field in terms of...
Intel and Canonical collaborate around IoT gateways
By Canonical, 2 June 2015
Intel and Canonical are collaborating around Intel® IOT Gateways and Snappy Ubuntu Core. The Intel® IOT Gateway will come with support for Snap Stores. The...
GE’s First Build is the future of smart home appliances…
By Maarten Ectors, 28 May 2015
First Build is the GE team that is responsible for the Chillhub, the first smart fridge with apps. The Chillhub runs Ubuntu Core and as such any Ubuntu...