Detecting the Power Source for an F7 Feather
One great feature of our F7 Feather platforms is the built-in battery connector and charging circuit, but developers that use it in their applications almost always follow up with the question of “How can my application know if I’m on line power or battery…
Add OpenWeather to your Meadow Projects
If you’d like to get real time weather data to your Meadow projects, you should try using the free public weather web service OpenWeatherMap, which we use already in a couple of our projects up on Hackster. First you’ll need to create an account…
Hack Kit Series: Closer look at Capacitive Soil Moisture sensors
Hello Makers, In this post we’re going over the Capacitive Soil Moisture sensor included in the Hack Kit. Capacitive Moisture Sensor is a soil moisture sensor based on capacitance changes. When the humidity of the soil rises, the value of the output decreases; conversely,…
Hack Kit Series: Closer look at Push Buttons
Hello friends, In this blog post I want to show you how we simplified the way to use push buttons on Meadow for beta 4.5 release (which is included in the Meadow Hack Kit) using Meadow.Foundation. Important Note: whenever we’re working with Digital Interrupt…
Hack Kit Series: Closer look at Relays
Hello Makers, It has been a while since I make another post about another peripheral included in Meadow’s Hack Kit. This time we’re going to learn how to work with relays using Meadow.Foundation. No need to download any NuGet packages to use this peripheral,…
20$ Off Meadow Hack Kit Holiday Sale
It’s the last chance to buy a Hack Kit in time for shipping for the holidays, and we’re running a 48 hour flash sale to help you make it happen! Now until Friday @ Midnight Pacific Time, get $20 off!! (Discount applied at checkout.) Dont…
Hack Kit Series: Closer look at 74HC595 IO Expander
Hello once again, In this post we’re going to talk about one integrated circuit included in your Hack Kit that you can use to expand your number of pins on your Meadow board: the 74HC595 (aka shift register). To use this peripheral, you’ll need…
Hack Kit Series: Closer look at LEDs
Hello Makers, In this blog post I want to show you how simple is to control LEDs using Meadow.Foundation. In other platforms you would need to set digital output ports or PWM ports to control the LEDs by changing its values explicitly. With Meadow.Foundation,…
Hack Kit Series: Closer look at SG90 Micro Servos
Hello once again, In this post, I want to draw your attention to the couple of servos included in your awesome Meadow Hack Kit. These are pretty straight forward to set up using the Meadow.Foundation driver library. For these peripherals, you’ll need to search…
Hack Kit Series: Closer look at 20×4 LCD character display
Hello friends, Just wanted to write a blog post about how incredibly easy is to wire up an LCD 20×4 character display (which is included in the Meadow Hack Kit) using Meadow.Foundation. First thing you’ll need to do is search and install the Meadow.Foundation.Displays.LCD.CharacterDisplay…
