There are many ways to do this, but on the Intel® Edison board, I found that the easiest way is using the /etc/init.d directory. If this is your first time using init.d for start-up scripts, you’re ...

Well that didn’t take long. We just heard last week about the Sony inviting firmware hacks for their SmartWatch and here’s an early example. This image above is an animation running on the watch. It ...

What was your first Arduino program? Probably an LED blinker — that seems to be the “hello world” of microcontrolllers. You probably moved on to things a little more complicated pretty quickly. At ...

We’ll have a closer look at the blinking LED Arduino sketch we saw last time. Programs written for the Processing [4] programming language are called sketches. These sketches are typically written ...