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…
Meadow b5.2 is live!
This is a small release that mainly focuses on cleanup of Meadow.Foundation, and fixing Bluetooth (which we broke in b5.1): BLE Fix – We broke the Bluetooth stack (among other small things) in b5.1 due to issues with our CI release pipeline. Most of the…
Meadow b5.1 is live!
We have now shipped another full stack update for Meadow, meaning new Meadow.OS binaries, Meadow.CLI, NuGet packages and VS Extension updates. The major highlights for this release are: Full .NET Standard 2.1 – We moved all the projects over to .NET Standard 2.1. (Last release…
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…
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…
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…
