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I know nothing about IOT. Is this revolutionary? It does look awesome.

• fragmede 12y ago
  The IoT revolution is inherently price conscious. It's not that any of this stuff is new, it's that I can buy a device cheap enough to consider adding wifi to everything, including a temperature sensor on my toaster, to show me temperature graphs for the perfect toast. It could be done 10 years ago, but spending $200 to internet-enable my toaster is ridiculous, but for $25 ($20 + a temperature sensor), it's a fun and silly weekend project. Spark themselves make the Core, which is $40, which is the same ecosystem, and also wifi shields for Arduino have existed for a while, though they aren't as cheap, and on the larger side, Raspberry Pi's have USB, which means you can just plug in a USB dongle. So I say yes, for $20 to go from wifi -> breadboard, this is revolutionary.
  • mark-r 12y ago
    A temperature sensor in the fridge would be much more useful than one on the toaster. I may have to get me one of these.
    • slayed0 12y ago
      I wonder how hard it is to pick up a wifi signal in a fridge though. I imagine the temperature shielding would be hard for the signal to penetrate. Report back!
      • methyl 12y ago
        You can always have sensor inside the fridge and board outside :)
• notatoad 12y ago
  $19 for a wifi board that actually does stuff is pretty cool. maybe not totally revolutionary, but definitely worthy of mention.