Review: Hexiwear Power User Pack

Hexiwear is a wearable development kit for the Internet of Things era. A small and sleek, low-power device packed with sensors to quantify yourself and the world around you. Wirelessly enabled, it can connect both to devices nearby or to cloud servers far away.

WIZnet, one of ARM mbed Silicon Partners, will hold an IoT Design Contest, titled “Curation is Creation” at cybermakerspace.com. IoT solutions for the contest must be designed on the ARM mbed-enabled WIZwiki-W7500 Platform.

I must improve time to market, improve time to market, improve time to market. Add to that the wish to lower the costs of product development and life-time maintenance plus the desire that new technologies should be more easily accessible and what you get is the holy trinity of management obsessions. Do these people ever close an eye at night?

During the 2015 ARM TechCon in Santa Clara, California, Atmel Corporation has unveiled their first evaluation board based on the ARM mbed IoT Platform. With this board they join other major microcontroller manufacturers that support, or should we say, are supported by? mbed.

ARM's mbed platform started out a few years ago as a cloud compiler for small modules equiped with an ARM Cortex-M microcontroller. The free open-source service provides many libraries and users can also publish their own projects. Microcontroller manufacturers have embraced the platform and developed many mbed-compatible microcontroller boards. Now the system has grown in such a way that it is time to enter mbed 3.0. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mbed IoT Device Platform.

The board is an upgrade from the previous version which used a Cortex-M3 processor running at 96 MHz with 32 KB of RAM and 512 KB of flash memory. Communication links I/Os are also improved with Ethernet, SPI, I2C, ADC, DAC, PWM, UART and GPIOs. Also included in the package is a sensor IO ...

NXP Semiconductors N.V. has announced that their latest versions of the LPCXpresso range of development boards now support the ARM mbed internet-of-things application development platform. Since its introduction in 2010, the LPCXpresso development platform - with its Eclipse-based IDE and flexible target boards - has been used by embedded systems engineers as an evaluation-to-production solution for developing MCU applications based on NXP LPC microcontrollers. Now at version 2, LPCXpresso developers have access to resources from both LPCOpen and the mbed.org developer communities.  

Icon Labs has released what it claims to be the industry’s first software firewall that protects home automation devices from Internet-based attacks. Dubbed “Floodgate at Home”, the software features the Icon Labs suite of security products to provide device protection, management and incident ...