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…
Continuous(ish) Delivery of Meadow Libraries
It wasn’t too long ago that the release process for the Meadow stack was…let’s just call it horribly inefficient. From when we decided “time to ship a build” to when NuGets were available was literally measured in days. It was a process that we…
Why is my Meadow app always named “App.dll”?
The Meadow Core stack has a hard-coded requirement for Meadow Apps on the F7 platform to be named either “App.dll” or “App.exe”. This requirement is actually a bit of a legacy carryover from the beta days. Originally, when the Meadow stack only targeted the…
Meadow App Settings
It’s pretty common for an IoT application to need to read persistent but changeable settings at startup. Meadow applications have long supported the app.config.yaml file for settings to control behavior of the Resolver.Log, the device’s lifecycle behavior (e.g. restarting on an uncaught exception) or…
Meadow and RS485 (and Modbus RTU oh my!)
If you’re building an industrial embedded application, you’re probably aware of the RS485 standard. It’s been an industry standard for decades and it persists because it’s both simple and works very well over long distances and in EM-noisy environments. The Wilderness Labs Project Lab…
Device Logs over UDP
Developing applications requires debugging and in most embedded projects this means writing to a logger. Meadow is no different here. If you’re familiar with Meadow development, you’re probably familiar with calling the various methods on Resolver.Log but you might wonder why we recommend you…
DevCamp 2023: Meadow v1.0, Meadow Cellular, Meadow.Cloud, and More!
Meadow is now v1.0 Thanks to everyone who attended DevCamp 2023, either in person or virtually! We enjoyed seeing so many customers and community members. We announced a LOT of innovative product news at DevCamp that we’ve been working on, but one announcement stood…
Setting up Azure IoT Hub for your Meadow projects
You can finally configure your Meadow projects with Azure using IoT Hub! This guide will guide you step by step of what you need to do generate a sas access token that you’ll add on your project to communicate with azure to send and…
Save the Date: DevCamp ‘23, May 18th & 19th!
We’re excited to announce that we’re hosting our first ever, in-person, DevCamp in Seattle on May 18th/19th, 2023. Join us to be the first to hear some awesome Meadow news. Registration is free, and the in-person portion is invite-only. But don’t worry; even if…
Wilderness Labs Raises $3.3MM Seed Round
PORTLAND, Ore., March 16, 2023 – Wilderness Labs, a pioneering startup that has created an accessible IoT platform that opens the embedded hardware space to millions of .NET developers, has announced the successful funding of its $3.3MM seed round. This funding is led by…
