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Matt Haines Community Manager

Electric Imp - Hackathon Intro

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Quick intro to the Electric Imp platform, and why you might want to use Electric Imp in your hack.

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Matt Haines Community Manager

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Hardware• 32-bit Arm Processor• Broadcom Wifi Module + Antenna• 6 GPIO Pins:– Digital IO– Analog IO (12-bit ADC and DAC)– PWM– SPI, I2C, UART

• Small (SD Card form factor)

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Platform• Browser Based IDE– No need to install a tool chain

• Push Code Over Wifi– No need for drivers / JTAG programmers

• impOS abstracts low level coding– No worries about network stack, security, etc

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Code• Squirrel– Object Oriented– Interpreted– Event Driver

• Write server and device code in same language– APIs for talking to hardware (pins, I2C, etc)– APIs for building web servers (similar to Node.js)– APIs for making outgoing web requests

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LED Api

http://electricimp.com/docs/gettingstarted/3-agents

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What Else• Documentations– http://electricimp.com/docs/– http://github.com/electrcimp

• We have free DevKits for you to use.

• We’re hiring– Hardware, Back End, Front End, QA, …– (Interns and grads)

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IF YOU ARE DOING A HARDWARE HACK

WE HAVE FREE HARDWARE

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Support

[email protected]@beardedinventor

@electricimp