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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