The Importance of Using Units… Or, how to not lose a spacecraft with Meadow
In late September, 1999, Nasa’s Mars Climate Orbiter prepared to enter a stable orbit around the Red Planet to serve as a comms relay for the 1998 Mars Polar Lander and monitor climate on the planet below. Launched December the year before, the USD$125MM…
Meadow b5.0 is Here!
And it’s the biggest release we’ve ever put out, with a pile of new features and goodies, including: Bluetooth v1.0 – That’s right, BLE support is here. Check out the Bluetooth Guide for details. .NET Standard 2.1 API Support – Meadow now fully supports…
Meadow b4.6 is Out! HttpListener and more!
This is another huge release with some really tasty new goodies, including: HttpListener Support – You can now turn your Meadow into a web server with HttpServer. TextDisplayMenu – Meadow.Foundation now has a new library called TextDisplayMenu that allows for easy menu creation and…
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…
