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,…
ICYMI: Check out Bryan and Jorge’s presentation on CodingAfterWork show
Hello friends, In case you missed the Meadow presentation at CodingAfterWork Twitch stream, you can check the recorded session right away. Jimmy and Jessica Engstrom interviews Bryan about IoT and Jorge shows a great Meadow project that gathers weather data from the public web…
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…
Meadow just got SSL and 10x faster network.
Guess what? Today we shipped Meadow b4.5 and it’s a huge leap forward for our networking stack with two major pieces to it: TLS/SSL Support – So you can call your favorite `https` service endpoints. This should open up services like MQTT, Azure IoT,…
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,…
Meadow b4.3 is live right now!
Hello Makers, As you probably know by now, we rolled out a new beta with updates on Meadow.CLI, Meadow.OS, Meadow.Core and Meadow.Foundation, so be sure to flash your devices with our latest Deploy Meadow.OS instructions and update all your NuGet packages to make sure…
Meadow projects recap in 2020
Hello fellow makers, This post is to showcase the most interesting and useful Meadow projects on Hackster released throughout this year: Working with µGraphics on a ST7789 Display Learn how to connect an SPI LCD display to your Meadow board to draw shapes, text…
ICYMI: Check out Bryan and Jorge’s Meadow presentation on .NET Live
Hello friends, In case you missed the Meadow presentation at the On .NET Live series, you can check the recorded session right away. Cecil Philips interviews Bryan about IoT and Jorge shows a great Meadow project that gathers weather data from the public web…
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…
ICYMI: Check out Adrian Steven’s Meadow presentation at the .NET Conf 2020
Hello friends, In case you missed the Meadow presentation at .NET Conf 2020, you can check the recorded session right away. Adrian talks about the upcoming wave in IoT, the impact it will have in our lives, and show’s the network capable project to…
