The Big Board of IoT Devices

Just for future reference, here’s the development board that sits on my desk: What’s on it? Well, here’s the list: Intel Edison: One on the (mostly useless) Intel Mini Breakout board and one on a Sparkfun Block (more on this one in a later post) Electric Imp A couple of Arduinos — they’re actually RFDuinos, which I backed on Kickstarter. A Particle Photon A NodeMCU Some random sensors I’m working with.

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March 30, 2016 Read
So What's With All The Jobs??

If you’ve been following along lately, you’ll notice that a bunch of stuff has been happening with me. First, I lost my job, Then I started a company, Dragonfly IoT, and made myself the CTO of it (because I could, you know). And yesterday I was appointed the new CTO of another startup, Chimera IoT. So that’s a lot of jobs, and a lot of CTO jobs, for just one person.

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January 15, 2016 Read
Why I'm Switching from Tile to Trakr

I’ve been a loyal Tile user since I first baked their Kickstarter project. I love the idea of being able to locate things I lose all the time, like my keys, and to keep track of stuff I might lose, like my DSLR, my GoPro, etc. I even used them to keep track of my cats when they wee indoor-outdoor cats. I at least knew when they were around even if I couldn’t find them.

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January 8, 2016 Read
Intel Edison Update

I need to amend my previous post about the Intel Edison. It turns out it may not be the Edison module itself but rather the Intel Mini-Breakout Board that is at fault when t comes to at least the I2C failure. I still have to see about the SPI failures. Here’s why I have reached that conclusion: I ordered some of the Sparkfun Blocks for Intel Edison© and went back to fooling with them.

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January 6, 2016 Read
Intel Edison Big Hat, No Cattle

It was almost exactly a year ago that I bought my first Intel Edison development kit. I was all excited about the prospects of it, as you can see here. It’s a nice, small, powerful (if power-hungry) IoT board that held a lot of promise for development and prototyping. I wish I were still as excited about it. I’ve tried, a couple of times, to use it for some development project or another.

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December 11, 2015 Read
New Hardware

I should have posted this back in October, but a few things happened. So I’m posting it now. I saw a few articles on the Spark.io board a while back, and had been anxiously awaiting its release. Then I got really really busy, and forgot all about it. Then I got unbusy again, and lo and behold, it was now called particle.io, and they had a few different boards. The Photon and the Electron.

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December 4, 2015 Read
Gulp ... I'm really doing this!

Well, as you know, I have been in the market for a new job lately. Really bad timing to be looking for a full-time gig what with the holidays, the end of many companies’ fiscal years, etc. Great timing. I decided it was time to take the bull by the horns, so to speak, and do something about it myself So I have co-founded Dragonfly IoT, a full-service IoT company. You can check out our new website (some slick HTML5 slinging involved there, if I do say so myself!

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December 2, 2015 Read
IoT Slam 2015

In case you haven’t heard about it yet, there is going to be a large virtual IoT Conference this year called IoT Slam ’15. If you haven’t submitted a topic for a session yet well, it’s too late. The Call For Papers closed last week. I thought about submitting a topic, but I was just too busy with engineering work, at the time, to pull it off. As you know, all that changed.

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October 11, 2015 Read
A Shock To The System

Well that was a bit of a shocker! As you may or may not know, I’ve been working as the Chief Technology Evangelist for a startup called PsiKick for the past 7 or 8 months. They have some pretty amazing technology for potentially making the Internet of Things battery less. It’s a great company, with great, and really smart, engineers. We were doing some great things, and starting to gain some traction.

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October 5, 2015 Read
How Do We Get to 20 Billion?

During an interview today, I was asked the question “So where do these numbers come from? How do we get to 20 billion IoT devices?” Great question! How, exactly, do we get to 20 billion (or 30 billion, or a trillion) IoT devices? We’re certainly not going to get there with wearable devices and other personal gadgets. Well, we might but it would be a stretch, and the probability is near-zero.

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April 6, 2015 Read
Some Minor IoT Calculations

Batteries will be a limiting factor in IoT deployments There’s a lot of hype about the Internet of Things (IoT) as I’ve said repeatedly — and as anyone who’s reading anything about technology these days already knows. There’s wearable tech, there’s healthcare IoT, there’s M2M IoT and a host of other areas of the IoT that are all projected to explode over the next 10 years. Billions and billions of devices are forecast.

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January 30, 2015 Read
Disney And #IoT

Over the holidays a friend of mine took her family to Disney World for a few days. They stayed at a resort in the park, paid extra for shorter lines at the rides, and were there in a group of 12. That’s a epic trip probably worthy of it’s own blog post — somewhere else. I couldn’t imagine the logistics of such a visit, but then again, it’s been 10 years since I’ve been to Disney World, and apparently a lot has changed in that time.

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January 9, 2015 Read