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TI SimplyLink WIFI

Sylvain — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:36:32 +0000

Looking to add wifi connectivity to your MSP430 device? Look no further, TI is pushing its new SimplyLink solution based on the CC3000 wifi chip

WIFI M2M

Sylvain — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:25:25 +0000

With over 2 billions chipsets worldwide, wifi’s been there, done that. While it started on power-hungry lap/desktops, the advant of the smartphone now means wifi is a prime contender in the embedded M2M space. Granted, it still uses a bit more power than an optimized Zigbee-like radio; however, for many M2M applications and devices that are powered from main, it makes a lot of sense.… read more...

NAVIZON: Indoor Triangulation System

Sylvain — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:53:26 +0000

Geo-location systems don’t get much exposure in the M2M world. You need to track some mobile assets/devices? plug an Off-The-Shelf GPS module for instant worldwide coverage. A simple NMEA ASCII-based protocol makes it easy to get your app rolling in no time.… read more...

Exosite for M2M Development

Sylvain — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:38:05 +0000

A convergence of technologies, M2M projects come in various flavors involving many moving pieces. From domain sensors to local mesh/wired/wireless networks, to gateway, to backend Cloud-based telemetry servers, to client UI, etc… getting a prototype out quickly becomes a challenge. Often time, a project starts with expertise in some domain sensing/actuating and a desire to provide remote access. … read more...

Linux Ethernet Bridge

Sylvain — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:37:38 +0000

An ethernet bridge is very useful when debugging with WireShark. In Linux one can bridge 2 network interfaces very easily…

Here, I’m using a development machine with 2 ethernet adapters. eth0 is connected to my LAN, while eth1 is set as a development subnet.… read more...

Arrow M2M Seminar Series

Sylvain — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:37:25 +0000

Arrow Electronics is hosting a series of one-day seminars across the US:

Arrow M2M Seminar Series

You can attend for $99 or, when registering 30 days prior the event, for only $49. Four one-hour presentations, to choose from a catalog of 21 vendor-hosted sessions, will cover a wide range of M2M topics from embedded hardware, wireless connectivity, and back-end Cloud service.… read more...

SSH Tunneling

Sylvain — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 05:30:30 +0000

Creating the local proxy:

>> ssh -D 9999 -p 2223 -i ~/.ssh/private_id login@my.domain.com

This is the regular way of opening a client-side/local ssh session to a remote ssh server on my.domain.com:2223 using the login account with the private_id secure key. Except for the -D option…

The -D option specifies a local port on which to create a SOCKS proxy.… read more...

Installing RVM ruby-debug-ide

Sylvain — Thu, 12 May 2011 17:01:55 +0000

I installed Aptana Studio 3 on my Ubuntu 10.10 with local RVM (ruby 1.9.2.) All was good and the IDE looked promising. However, launching a debug session gave way to a popup window stating that ruby-debug-ide was missing!

I tried installing >> gem install ruby-debug-ide but the install failed while trying to build native extensions.… read more...

Eclipse + Android SDK on Unbutu 10.10

Sylvain — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:37:41 +0000

I updated my dev machine to Ubuntu 10.10 (from 10.04) and wanted to get started on Android development. I already had an Eclipse-CDT installed and figured I’d upgrade it too.

First, for development purposes, it’s recommended to install the Sun Java JDK/JRE. … read more...