Hackacle Hardware for the Internet of Things (IoT)

Hackable Hardware for the Internet of

Things(an incomplete overview, by Nicolas Saint-Arnaud)

April 2015

Overview

• What is the “Internet of Things” ?

• Components: processor, battery, I/O, wireless

• Development Boards

• Demos!

“The Internet of Things”

• Home Automation

• Wearables

• Everything else = IoT

Components

processor

Inputs and Outputs(I/O)

battery wireless

Wireless Communication

• WiFi

• BLE: Bluetooth Low Energy

• Mesh networking in Home Automation: Z-Wave, Zigbee (IEEE 802.15.4)

Development Boards• Arduino• Raspberry Pi• LightBlue Bean• mbientlab MetaWear• Electric Imp• LittleBits• More…

Raspberry Pi• $20 to $35

• Linux + Python

• HDMI out, audio out, USB

• up to 17 digital I/O pins

• WiFi USB $10

• camera module $25

LightBlue Bean• $30

• BLE

• operates on coin battery ~1 week

• 6 digital I/O pins, 2 analog pins

• 3-axis accelerometer, temperature sensor

• Wireless programming (C language, Arduino compatible)

• iOS, Android, OSX, Windows 8

mbientlab MetaWear• $45

• BLE

• comes with rechargeable 100mAH lithium battery ~ 1-2 weeks

• 4 analog/digital pins + 4 digital pins

• 26mm x 17mm x 2.5mm

• temperature sensor, vibrator

• iOS, Android

Electric Imp• $30 + $13 breakout board

• WiFi with BlinkUp (TM)

• 2 analog/digital pins + 4 digital pins

• Squirrel Language

• Cloud infrastructure

• 32mm x 24mm x 2.1mm

• iOS, Android

LittleBits CloudBit

• $100 for CloudBit starter kit

• magnetic plug and play

• Intel Edison ~$50 WiFi, BLE, USB, GPIO

• Spark Photon ~$20 WiFi, GPIO

• … many more coming out

Troubleshooting Hardware

• Saleae Logic analysers

• starting at $109

• OSX, Windows, Linux

• https://www.saleae.com/

Hackable Hardware for the Internet of Things

Nicolas Saint-Arnaud - [email protected]