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So, you have heard a lot about how the lightweight messaging protocol MQTT is great for IOT applications. Here is a great introduction to MQTT by Node-Red.

Jay Carlson has written an amazing comparison of different low-cost Microcontroller ecosystems that is extremely useful for anyone looking for a quick, brief and accurate account. Highly recommended ! The Amazing $1 Microcontroller    

The Internet of Things has seen a lot of changes and improvements in all areas, including but not limited to products, technologies and tools. According to the editor,  the most important merger of the year was Atmel’s acquisition by Microchip Technology. This will have far-reaching effects on what kind of devices will be found on…

EDIT: In case you are wondering where this video has gone, please click here to visit our new blog post about the topic. The PubNub CTO Stephen and one of their senior developers Tomomi recently released a very useful video that I thought would be worth sharing with guys interested in understanding how the Publish/Subscribe…

I am evaluating Resin.IO with my new RaspberryPI 2 and the results are fantastic for the simplified process. This is how it works. resin.io from Resin.io Team on Vimeo. So, from a device admin’s perspective, all you need to do is to burn a customized image to an SD card, boot the device off it…

Raspberry PI 2 was a great improvement over the version 1. However, we did have to attach external USB WiFi dongles to connect wirelessly. The Raspberry PI 3 offers an upgrade from 32 bit to a 64 bit ARM Cortex A-53 CPU, faster clock speed of 1.2 GHz over Raspberry PI 2’s 1GHz. But I…