Internet of Things archives
54 posts from 2018
Design and Web team summary – 20 April 2018
By Robin Winslow, 20 April 2018
Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. We manage all web projects across Canonical – from www.ubuntu.com to the Juju GUI we help...
Eclipse 2018 survey: The IoT landscape, what it empirically looks like
By Jamie Bennett, 18 April 2018
Every year the Eclipse Foundation along with other sponsors conduct an online survey of the IoT market looking at what technologies are being used and how....
BotsAndUs build a social robot on Ubuntu
By Sarah Dickinson, 16 April 2018
As robotics become increasingly prevalent in all sectors and expand outside the manufacturing industry, it is no surprise that IDC predicts worldwide spending...
Design and Web team summary – 10 April 2018
By Anthony Dillon, 10 April 2018
MAAS squad Homepage A/B test completes The team ran an A/B test on two homepage designs. Based on Google analytics experiment data and Crazy egg scroll-map...
The Nextcloud Box: a review of building an IoT device with snaps
By Guest, 5 April 2018
In 2016, Canonical, Nextcloud and WDLabs introduced the Nextcloud Box, the first IoT style device running with snaps out of the box. Besides sales of nearly...
Design and Web team summary – 27 March 2018
By Anthony Dillon, 27 March 2018
The design and web team work on a wide array of projects throughout Canonical. Therefore, we are split into seven squads to handle different aspects of the...
Your first robot: Sharing with others [5/5]
By Kyle Fazzari, 16 March 2018
This is the fifth (and final) blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we discussed methods of...
Your first robot: The driver [4/5]
By Kyle Fazzari, 9 March 2018
This is the fourth blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we worked on getting data out of...
Canonical announces Ubuntu Core across Rigado’s IoT gateways
By Canonical, 21 February 2018
Rigado customers will benefit from open source, cost-effective, secure software in their commercial IoT deployments London, UK – 21st February 2018 –...
Snapcraft through the eyes of its biggest community contributor
By Sarah Dickinson, 16 February 2018
If you’ve spent any time in the Snapcraft forum, it’s quite likely you’ve come across Dani Llewellyn – a keen community advocate or self-proclaimed...
Your first robot: The controller [3/5]
By Kyle Fazzari, 11 February 2018
This is the third blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post you were introduced to the Robot...
Snapcraft Summit summary – day 5
By elopio, 3 February 2018
This Snapcraft Summit is coming to an end. We had five days full of hard and fun work, together with many friends from many other projects that are part of...