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Topic: New Open hardware for IoTs and Robotics

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Dear all,
      As you know, about one year ago, I said I would like to develop a true-friendly open hardware with openwrt installed. And now, my friends and I have almost finished it. We have done many tests and finished many demos. I guess you guys will be interested in it, and are wondering to know what it really looks like. For the information, you can access our website (www.intorobot.com).
      You are always welcome to tell me which OpenWrt version will be most suitable for the hardware. The hardware now is installed with OpenWrt BB.

(Last edited by Intorobot on 8 Jun 2015, 19:58)

Your website is broken. sad

Your video from the other thread is interesting.

The next OpenWrt release ("DD", Kernel 4.x) will probably have WPAN support (its available but disabled in CC atm) which might be interesting for connecting/managing small sensor/actor "clouds" with 6lowpan and Bluetooth/IEEE802154.

maybe the wview package (or similar ones) might be interesting for your hardware

Broken website, Really?  It is very strange, because I can access it quite well in Switzerland. Are you in US? 

Thank you a lot for your suggestion, zloop. The support of WPAN in DD is very interesting. We hope to try the DD asap, and then present some feedback to the forum.

zloop wrote:

Your website is broken. sad

Your video from the other thread is interesting.

The next OpenWrt release ("DD", Kernel 4.x) will probably have WPAN support (its available but disabled in CC atm) which might be interesting for connecting/managing small sensor/actor "clouds" with 6lowpan and Bluetooth/IEEE802154.

maybe the wview package (or similar ones) might be interesting for your hardware

Hi zloop,
    I also found CC already has the first Release candidate. That is awesome!
Does the CC RC1 support  GPIO-PWM driver? We may need it, because a gpio-pwm-driven tricolor-led is now used on our hardware.

zloop wrote:

Your website is broken. sad

Your video from the other thread is interesting.

The next OpenWrt release ("DD", Kernel 4.x) will probably have WPAN support (its available but disabled in CC atm) which might be interesting for connecting/managing small sensor/actor "clouds" with 6lowpan and Bluetooth/IEEE802154.

maybe the wview package (or similar ones) might be interesting for your hardware

Interesting idea.

if the target is using for IoT, what about bluetooth low energy support and power conssumption?.
I think IoT devices should have more focus in bluetooth than wifi.

I think that it should use a minimum distribution of OpenWRT for IoT appliances.

smile. power consumption can be a critical factor for IoTs, and bluetooth will be a good choice. Yet the communication distance for bluetooth is limitted. Therefore, i think it depends on the practical applications to use wifi or bluetooth.

KHAN85 wrote:

Interesting idea.

if the target is using for IoT, what about bluetooth low energy support and power conssumption?.
I think IoT devices should have more focus in bluetooth than wifi.

I think that it should use a minimum distribution of OpenWRT for IoT appliances.

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