CAN Support in Meadow
The Controller Area Network (commonly called “CAN”) bus is a fault-tolerant, two-wire serial bus used extensively in automotive and telematics applications today. Since Meadow hardware provides an excellent platform for applications in the harsh environments of fielded vehicle monitoring and control systems, we have…
High-speed Analog Reads with AnalogInputArrays
Did you know that since Meadow.OS v1.6, you can use the Direct Memory Access (DMA) feature on the F7 to do Analog to Digital Conversions (ADC) at an incredibly high sampling rate? While the AnalogInputPort provides a powerful way to do analog port reads…
Building a CCM-Based GPS Tracker Video Series
Check out our awesome series of archived livestream videos in which Wilderness Labs CEO, Bryan Costanich, walks through creating a custom Meadow Core-Compute Module powered GPS/GNSS tracker from start to finish. In this series, he starts with designing the PCB and then goes through…
Core-Compute Modules are shipping!
That’s right! The long-awaited Meadow Core-Compute-Module (CCM) and CCM Dev Kit boards are going out the door to those that have pre-ordered them. If you’re designing production-IoT w/Meadow, these can help you get to production faster, easier, and without the supply chain headache! Meadow F7 CCMs have all…
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…
Meadow b6.0 live with debugging
We’re happy to announce our latest full-stack release, b6.0. We’ve added in-IDE debugging, device config file support, a 20x Graphics Performance, and much more. Debugging – Debugging support in Visual Studio for Windows, macOS, and VS Code! Device/OS Configuration – Device and OS settings are now…
Work on Meadow using Visual Studio Code
Hello Meadow developers, In this post, I want to show you how to use the Meadow Extension for Visual Studio Code. Installation Download the extension .vsix file from the latest GitHub release. Click File -> Preferences -> Extensions. In the Extensions tab , click the … menu and…
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…
Top Five Reasons to Use Netduino
When working with Netduino, you can literally build hardware at the speed of software. Are you a C# .Net developer that wants to build connected solutions but you feel like you don’t have the knowledge you need to assemble and control hardware? Are you…
