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Control your lights at home, your LEGO Robots and many other wireless projects with the Pretzelboard, a low cost yet powerful easy-to-use IoT WiFi-Board, offering a versatile learning and teaching platform. It nicely combines an Arduino NANO and an ESP8266 Wi-Fi module. The Arduino IDE provides the simplest way of programming the board. As an example, this video shows how to use a Pretzelboard in your wireless home network.

For the BotConf 2015 Conference, which brought together 265 experts from 34 countries in Paris in early December, the daily paper “Le Monde” offered a description of the problems posed by “Botnets” – networks of enslaved “Zombie” computers controlled by a hacker without the knowledge of their owners. Members of a network of identical computers, these robots stand waiting, sometimes for years, to be mobilized for an attack.

Intersil has introduced the ISL29501 time-of-flight (ToF) signal processing IC that provides an object detection and distance measurement solution when combined with an external emitter (LED or laser) and photodiode. Intersil claim the technology...

The 17 mm square MM7150 Motion Module from Microchip Technology is a complete, small form-factor board containing a 3-axis accelerometer, 6-axis digital compass and gyroscope sensors pre-programmed with integrated calibration and sensor fusion algorithms.  Connections to the board include ...

Armed with a Raspberry Pi and a wireless adapter extension two hackers show how surprisingly easy it is for an attacker to take control of a Home Automation System and disable the motion detector or unlock doors. More than one of the many lists predicting the tech trends of 2014 forecasts that this year the Internet of Things will finally really burst on the scene. They're probably wrong. The IoT is not like the smartphone, a concept that struggled for years until the launch of the right device...

IBM teamed up with M2M hardware provider Libelium to create a development platform for wireless sensor networks. The open source kit uses the 6LoWPAN protocol to connect every single node directly to the Internet over IPv6. The Internet of Things -a vision of trillions of devices and sensors connected to the Internet collecting and processing data about the world around us- has been a promise on the horizon for quite some time now. But there are still many obstacles to overcome before we can en...

This article first appeared in the December issue of Elektor. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the merger of the physical and the digital world. Ordinary objects featuring tiny computers will be assigned an IPv6 address and have a digital representation on the Internet. We will be able to access information about the objects in our daily lives over the internet and even remotely control them. Many instances of the IoT won’t even have humans in the loop. The IoT as a machine-to-machine network whe...