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AWS seeks cloud domination; CES returns to Vegas; AT&T Developer Summit set.

Amazon Web Services has 81 services for its customers in the Internet of Things, online video games, and other markets, Quentin Hardy notes in this analysis. AWS is competing with Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud Platform in cloud computing services, which are now extending beyond data centers and servers to offer software and a multitude of online services

Fibocom Wireless is sampling the L816-AM LTE Cat 1 module for the North American market. Based on an Intel XMM 7120M LTE modem, the L816-AM is a multi-mode module. It will be commercially available in early 2017.

CES is back again next week, January 5-8, for its 2017 edition.

Currently SmartEE is a drop in replacement to upgrade the WeMo (R) Insight into an open source hackable smart plug. An Atmel SAM4S interfaces with the Insight’s solid state meter to measure Vrms, Irms, Watts, Hz, kWh, and more. It logs data over WiFi or to an internal SD card with up to 4 years of storage space. Set up the plug using the USB serial interface, then wirelessly toggle the relay, monitor your power, and set the mood with the RGB LED.

SmartEE is an opensource hackable smart plug. You can turn on and off loads and monitor power consumption all over your home or lab’s WiFi network. Its easy to customize – just import the plug.py python module into your code to add SmartEE’s to your own project.

Right now the project uses the WeMo Insight’s enclosure and base board.

Build a network live cam with the Lamobo – Banana Pi BPI-D1 board. In this project I will give you step by step instructions

Robots are the ‘it’ thing right now, computer vision is a hot topic, and microcontrollers have never been faster. These facts lead inexorably to the OpenMV, an embedded computer vision module that bills itself as the ‘Arduino of Machine Vision.’

The original OpenMV was an entry for the first Hackaday Prize, and since then the project has had a lot of success

OpenMV
Python-powered machine vision modules
https://hackaday.io/project/1313-openmv

The OpenMV project is a low-cost, extensible, Python-powered machine vision modules, that aims at becoming the Arduino of machine vision…

Los Angeles, CA, December 21, 2016 – Gobot the open source robotics and Internet of Things (IoT) framework has just reached a major milestone today with the release of version 1.0. Now supporting over 24 different hardware and software platforms, the framework can also connect using Machine to Machine (M2M) communication standards such as MQTT.

https://gobot.io/

Thinking of an easy way to open your garage? Then this project is just right for you! Enjoy the convenience of using this smart garage door using an IOT device. This project uses a Spark Core board which simplifies the connection of devices over the internet, an OLED display that shows the status of the door, an LCC120 digital relay that emulates the garage door button, and an optional Pebble Smartwatch for remote access.

To operate the smart garage remotely and check on its status, a Pebble Steel smartwatch can be used. A quick application in javascript (called SmartGarage) that allows the user to query the status of the door (using the RESTful services of the Sparkcore). Since the Pebble can run Javascript applications, it can easily make AJAX requests when buttons are pressed.

Sparkcore SmartGarage Hardware Details
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKyc8NKqGOA

Showing the components of the Sparkcore SmartGarage including the Sparkcore, the OLED screen and the 3D printed plastic case and wall mount.

How do you audit your home Wi-Fi network? Perhaps you log into your router and have a look at the connected devices. Sometimes you’ll find an unexpected guest, but a bit of detective work will usually lead you to the younger nephew’s game console or that forgotten ESP8266 on your bench.

Wouldn’t it be useful if your router could tell you where all the devices connected to it are? If you are [Zack Scholl], you can do all this and more, for his FIND-LF system logs Wi-Fi probe requests from all Wi-Fi devices within its range even if they are not connected, and triangulates their position from their relative signal strengths across several sniffing receivers. These receivers are a network of Raspberry Pis with their own FIND-LF server, and any probe requests they pick up are forwarded to [Zack]’s FIND server (another of his projects) which does the work of collating the locations of devices.

https://github.com/schollz/find-lf

[Sashi]’s PURE modules system wants your next wireless microcontroller and sensor module project to be put together using card-edge connectors. But it’s a lot deeper than that — PURE is an entire wireless gadget development ecosystem. Striking a balance between completeness and modularity is very difficult; a wire can carry any imaginable electronic signal, but just handing someone a pile of wires presents them a steep learning curve. PURE is at the other end of the spectrum: everything is specified.

So far, two microcontroller options are available in the system, the nRF52 series and TI’s CC2650. Both of these run the Contiki OS, so it doesn’t matter which of these you choose. Wired data is all transmitted over I2C and connects up via the previously-mentioned card-edge connectors. On the wireless side, data transport is handled through an MQTT broker, using the MQTT-sn variant which is better suited to small radio devices. At the protocol layer everything uses Protocol Buffers, Google’s newest idea for adding some structure to the data.

PURE modules
Simplifying development of low power wireless IoT hardware and software sensor prototypes with a modular sensor architecture
https://hackaday.io/project/12808-pure-modules