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…

New Meadow.CLI beta version is out

As we work hard towards our biggest Meadow update yet, we just rolled out a beta build of our command line tool, Meadow.CLI, that will help make flashing, deploying files, listen to COM ports and more, work more reliably. Open a terminal and type:…

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…

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…

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…

The Inside Story of Meadow.Linux

About a year ago I was working on a project for an NVIDIA Jetson Nano that used four pretty common and easy to find peripheral devices. As a long-time embedded .NET developer, I decided that using the .NET IoT library was probably the route…

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…

Introducing the Meadow F7V2

Hello friends of Wilderness Labs! Bryan here, and I’m super excited to break the news on a piece of technical art we’ve been working on for the last year, the Meadow F7v2 board: The F7v2 is the successor to our popular F7v1 board and…

Meadow b5.3 w/ SQLite and more!

Meadow b5.3 is out, and it’s our most stable and complete release yet. We spent a lot of effort fixing issues introduced in b5.1/b5.2, and also added SQLite support to Meadow! Big changes and fixes include: SQLite Support – SQLite is now built into Meadow.OS…

Update Meadow Apps from .NET Framework to .NET Standard

If you’re running beta 5.1 we released just now, after completing a full stack update from Meadow.OS to the VS Extension, you’ll also need to update your Meadow Application projects. In this post I’m going to show you how to do that. In beta…