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  • Article: Put the Watson AI into Your Raspberry Pi with IBM’s Free(ish) Embedded Development Platform

    There is an interesting IoT/Artificial Intelligence platform from IBM called Project Intu. From the project page: A new, experimental program from IBM enables developers to imbue Internet of Things (IoT) systems — robots, drones, avatars and other devices — with the cognitive know-how of Watson. This definitely looks worth checking out to see what kinds…

  • “Alexa, Make My ESP8266 Do Something” | Hackaday

    Well here is an interesting hack that can be very useful for the NodeMCU version of the GadgetBox. Wouldn’t it be nice to control a GadgetBox with Alexa voice commands without a middleman like SmartThings? Well this hack seems to be the ticket! It is a library for the esp8266 that allows it to emulate…

  • Using Amazon Alexa to control Ameba Arduino

    Nice article on the steps it takes to setup an IoT device to use an Amazon Echo device. Can we adapt this to ESP8266 based devices? via Instructables  

  • How to Run Your ESP8266 for Years on a Battery – Open Home Automation

      This is a topic that has a lot of significance for the GadgetBox platform. There are lots of IoT projects that need as much battery life as can be squeezed out of them. This awesome article explains how to squeeze 3 years of battery life out of an esp8266 module! https://openhomeautomation.net/esp8266-battery/

  • Node-Red – A visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things

    As we continue to puzzle out all the different approaches to create an IoT application something that caught our eye was Node-Red. It’s billed as a visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things. The home page says this: Node-RED is a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and…

  • Setting Up Your Own Arduino IoT Cloud Server – DZone IoT

    With the soon to be released GadgetBox IoT enclosures we have been on the hunt for server solutions to drive our IoT devices. We really like Blynk so far, but it is not free. So when we saw this VPS based solution we knew it was something to put on the list to evaluate! If anyone gets a…