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Messaging and the New Web

Messaging and the New Web

The Widget Company now has two successful devices on the market. WidgetX (LED) has a web server built into it, and is expecting REST operations for control. WidgetY (photocell) has a WebSocket server built into it, and can push sensor data to the web in real-time. But does this represent

Circuit Friday: Thermistor

Circuit Friday: Thermistor

My family has recently moved into a new home, and we are struggling to fine tune the thermostat in this Colorado Fall, where daytime temperatures hit 70°F and drop to 30°F at night. This means temperature sensing applications are fresh in my mind. For today's Circuit

WidgetY and the New Web

WidgetY and the New Web

My how time flies! The Widget Company has gone on to make many new friends with the revolutionary WidgetX device. Connected to the Internet, you have the power to control an LED through a simple web page. Magnificent! Sales are at an all-time high, and customers love it. With that

WidgetX and the Old Web

WidgetX and the Old Web

In my last article on "IoT and the New Web [http://kevinhoyt.com/blog/2014/11/04/iot-and-the-new-web.html]" I talked about how consumer expectations are trending towards instant gratification. I went on to talk about how that experience impacts the Web and the Internet of Things (IoT)

IoT and the New Web

IoT and the New Web

All too often, we as developers, focus on technology for what it can do for us - and usually in a particularly one-sided conversation. Every now and again however, there comes a time when we need not to look at technology for what it can do for us, but rather

Tic Tac Toe Light

Tic Tac Toe Light

I had the great privilege of being a speaker at HTML5 Developer Conference [http://html5devconf.com/] in San Francisco recently. It was the second HTML5 Dev Conf I have presented at, with the first one being October 2013. This time, I paired with Frank Greco [https://twitter.com/frankgreco] to

Real-Time Quadcopter Telemetry

Real-Time Quadcopter Telemetry

Modern commercial aircraft have what is commonly referred to as a "black box". The black box is a flight data recorder. It captures numerous sensor data points across the aircraft, and records them for playback in the case of a catastrophe. As we have seen lately however, the