NERP Tonight — Wireless Toys
The Internet of Things (IoT) need lots of options for wireless communication hardware. Lots of variables are involved in choosing the wireless chip or module that links your new Thing to all the other Things.
A popular last millimeter link is UART based serial. the big end of the link can be wifi, or uart-style data., or whatever convention you come up with. This class of hardware has been around for a long time. The serial to wifi link used to be called a com-port redirector. Commercial units could easily cost $200. The competition pressure brough on by the IoT movement has produced a crop of really inexpensive data links. They list now on Amazon for $2-$10. A lot of them have Arduino sample code available. I just bought two different boards from Amazon, and tonight I’ll evaluate one or both units and see what’s involved in making them go.
NERP is not exclusively Raspberry Pi, the small computer
and embedded systems interest group at Pumping Station:One
in Chicago. NERP meets every other Monday at 7pm at Pumping
Station:One, 3519 N. Elston Ave. in Chicago.
Find NERP and Pumping Station:One at
http://www.meetup.com…
and
http://pumpingstation…
Doors open at 6:30pm. The next meeting is November 24th, 2014.
NERP is free and open to the public.
Ed Bennett ed @ kinetics and electronics com
Tags: electronics, embedded, NERP, Open Source,
raspberry pi, hackerspace, Beagle Bone, Element14, Pumping
Station One
