Wilderness Labs announces the appointment of Thomas Dohmke to Chair of the Board
Wilderness Labs announces the appointment of Thomas Dohmke as Chair of the Board of Wilderness Labs. Dohmke is the CEO of GitHub, the largest developer community on the planet. Having been a developer for over 30 years, Thomas brings extensive experience in building developer…
How to do a full stack Meadow update
In this post shows you how I performs a full stack update, meaning updates for the Meadow.CLI, Meadow.OS binaries, Visual Studio extensions, and Meadow.Foundation drivers and updates. Check out our Release Notes to see all the latest changes in every beta release. Updating your…
Drawing Images with MicroGraphics
Drawing images on a display is pretty much table-stakes for any sort of display-based application, and embedded software is no exception. Meadow Foundation‘s MicroGraphics Library is our go-to for drawing things like lines, shapes and text, but it wasn’t terribly friendly for drawing images….
ICYMI: Check out Chris Tacke’s appearance on Enterprise IoT for .NET developers
Not long ago, one of our Meadow engineers, Chris Tacke, did a very interesting demo using Meadow to show what working in IoT looks like coming as a .NET software developer, and you’ll be surprised on how easy and familiar is to use our…
Optimizing the Clima Supply Chain: Batteries
Hey folks! Bryan here, I wanted to share some learning we gained around batteries and the supply chain that might be useful in your own battery-powered, IoT solutions. As a reference IoT kit, Clima is intended to help our customers accelerate their own production-IoT…
Embedded Development is All About Iteration
I’m starting on a new side project for fun. I want to create a scoring box for fencing (the olympic sport, not building fences). If you don’t know much about fencing, the score box is wired to each fencer and their blade and it…
b6.0.1 is here with new VS2022 Meadow Extension and more!
We have now released our last beta update of the year, VS2022 extension! – Meadow officially supports Visual Studio 2022! Open the Manage Extensions dialog in Visual Studio to install. The existing extension for VS2019 and VSCode has also been updated with more stability…
ICYMI: Full Device Support for Meadow in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Microsoft Partner Program Manager, Scott Hanselman, and Product Manager for WSL, Craig Loewen walk through how to connect Meadow to the Windows Linux Subsystem for full device support. Once connected, Scott performs a live demo on how to flash the last OS onto Meadow…
Upgrading from Meadow F7v1 to F7v2
Hi folks, Jorge here, and in this post I wanted to point out a few things to consider when upgrading your Meadow Application from a F7v1 to a F7v2 board. While both may look very similar at first sight, F7v2 packs a number of…
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…
